Popular antivirus began to block all Google services as viruses

Users of the popular antivirus Malwarebytes began to complain about the inability to enter the search page

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It turned out that the reason is a bugweb filter that appeared after the next antivirus update. Users noted that when they tried to enter sites associated with Google, they received a “barrage of notifications about malicious sites” from the antivirus - Malwarebytes marked them as viruses.

One user described the situation like this:“Looks like Malwarebytes has released a buggy update. I can't visit any of the Google sites because I get endless threat notifications. I tried turning off real-time protection - the error went away.

As a result, representatives of the company developingMalwarebytes responded quickly enough to user complaints. According to the developers, they are aware of a problem with the web filtering component, which can block a number of websites, including google.com.