The messages appear faster than you can read them, reports one of those affected in the Microsoft Answers forum. But also on Reddit, hardware manufacturer and website forums, the reports about the constant alarm messages from the Defender have recently been piling up.
False alarm – no malicious process present
The antivirus program incorrectly reports malicious software or a malicious process when launching various applications. As a result, some systems are severely impaired: one user wrote, for example, that his Internet connection is constantly gone because the Defender is trying to prevent the alleged malware from trying to contact a server after its false discovery.
Such false reports from the Defender are unfortunately not uncommon. Applications are often classified as “potentially unwanted software” or updates are marked as infected without anything being behind it. Problems with false positives crop up again and again, but Microsoft can usually correct them quickly. So far, however, there is no indication of an update that Microsoft could have initiated to eliminate the problem.
In the Microsoft Answers Forum has a moderator leave the notethat the issue is related to the Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus KB2267602 (Version 1.373.1508.0). If this is confirmed, a hotfix should be on the way soon.
Have you noticed something similar and also seen the error message “Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY”?
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