Microsoft Defender Is On the Job
March 22, 2022
I don’t know if this write up is an early April Fool thing or actual factual. “Microsoft Defender Goofed Up As It Flagged Its Own Office Updates As Malware” states:
…the company’s Defender for Endpoint security started detecting updates for its own Office app as ransomware. The antivirus program was misidentifying the “OfficeSvcMgr.exe” as malicious software.
Let’s assume there is some truth in the statement OfficeSvcMgr.exe is malicious. My ideas are:
- Careless Microsoft coding was part of OfficeSvcMgr.exe and less flawed coding by another Microsoft technical group spotted the “flaw”
- Microsoft’s quality assurance for its “security” systems remains questionable and the business process flaws have not yet been remediated
- Microsoft is busy adding features to Teams and ads to File Manager so there’s no time or resources to deal with the outstanding Defender service.
Which is closer to the pin? I am into the flawed business processes. But the appeal of putting ads into an operating system is a close second.
Stephen E Arnold, March 22, 2022
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