Critical Vulnerability Found in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

Posted by BravoCo on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:27PM
from the cyberscoop.com dept.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/critical-vulnerability-hits-microsoft-malware-protection-engine/

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Re:Critical Vulnerability Found in Microsoft Malware Protect... by megamindbrian2 on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:57PM (#15880501)

It doesn't remove mimikatz before allowing me to run it. Nice try.

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Re:Critical Vulnerability Found in Microsoft Malware Protect... by BravoCo on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:47PM (#15880434)

The short-term fix is to add an exclusion to encompass all of C: drive. That way even if a website drops an infected temp file it will not get scanned.

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