Microsoft Defender detecting Win32/Hive.ZY in Google Chrome, Electron apps.

[brad03]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-defender-falsely-detects-win32-hivezy-in-google-chrome-electron-apps/

considering a good amount of malwarebytes users use windows defender. Thought this was worth the post. 

[unknownguy]

Thanks for the information. I guess people get panic over this. I didn't get this update so I never noticed this.

[brad03]

38 minutes ago, unknownguy said:

Thanks for the information. I guess people get panic over this. I didn't get this update so I never noticed this.

I guess sometimes it’s a good thing for defender to lag behind abit considering it’s mostly cloud. 

[AdvancedSetup]

Thanks, I was helping someone in malware removal reporting this.