Microsoft Live One Care blocked Skype for a Trojan Infection by Mistake
Written by ishan pandey
Sunday, 27 April 2008
Microsoft Windows Live OneCare Users may have found their antivirus protection a little too proactive. Over the weekend, OneCare informed some Skype users that the popular voice-over-IP application was infected with the Trojan Win32/Vundo.gen!D.
Not true, says Skype, which noted that Microsoft has since repaired its overzealous signature file.
On Friday, OneCare subscribers started seeing their access to Skype blocked. Microsoft says it was trying to block a multiple-component family of programs that deliver "out of context" pop-up advertisements, and mistakenly included Skype.
On Tuesday, four days later, it sent out a revised signature file for Win32/Vundo.gen!D that did not include Skype.
Microsoft Windows Live OneCare Users may have found their antivirus protection a little too proactive. Over the weekend, OneCare informed some Skype users that the popular voice-over-IP application was infected with the Trojan Win32/Vundo.gen!D. 
