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If you're using Internet Explorer to browse the Web and wondering why you can't access Google, there's a reason — your computer might think it's harboring malware.
Two of Microsoft's anti-virus programs, Microsoft Security Essentials and its business-market sibling Microsoft Forefront, have been mistakenly flagging Google.com as malicious, leaving millions of customers unable to get to the world's most visited website, researcher Brian Krebs reported.
(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBCUniversal.)
This isn't the first time Microsoft has locked horns with Google by accident. Last September, the software titan's anti-virus programs not only marked Google's Chrome browser as malware, but actually removed it automatically from about 3,000 Windows machines.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46404138/ns/technology_and_science-security/#.TzxsDbGPXPY
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Shazami
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Not at all...
Competition is healthy!
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I'm sure it's just a coding misunderstanding -- there's no way that Microsoft would want users to utilize Bing instead of Google as a search engine, right? 
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accidents happen!!
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Shazami posted:
Not at all...
Competition is healthy!
Especially when it comes to Apple suing everyone.
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Mmm...works fine in Firefox?
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LOL ... Microsoft
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that is pretty funny.
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