Fair, but it would need to have had the chance to get that info and then to also send it somewhere nefarious. Would defender quarantining/blocking it not have prevented it from doing those things?
1. I agree in general better safe than sorry. I want to be cautious here though not to devolve into fearmongering.2. Obviously we can't address the root cause, but it seems to me like we don't currently have reason to believe there are any effects be...
That does seem like a plausible explanation. Now my question becomes: should this be considered a real threat and if so what should be done?Is it possible that we might see this same "infection spreading" behavior from a false positive? Would a false...
Only in my case though, remember this discussion was started on the 16th. I think the only thing we can say with certainty regarding the timing is that we know this issue has existed since at latest the 16th, and that there doesn't seem to be a clear...
My most recent successful backup completed at 3am on the 25th, and the threat was first detected by Defender at 1am on the 26th for me. I have auto updates on for firefox, and the log shows it successfully updated to 121.0 at 7am on the 20th. This wo...
