Microsoft Defender Flags Legitimate Google Search Links as Malicious

Microsoft Defender briefly decided Google Search was malware

You can pay every month for Office 365's productivity tools, but you still can't escape Microsoft Defender's habit of turning everyday links into fake security alerts. On September 2, Office 365 subscribers ran into an unusual incident: Redmond's endpoint antivirus engine began flagging Google Search results as potentially malicious URLs.Read Entire Article

Microsoft Defender flags legitimate Google search links as malicious

Microsoft is investigating an issue causing the Defender for Office 365 security software to mistakenly block access to legitimate Google search links. [...]

Microsoft Defender is falsely flagging Google links as malicious

This will hopefully be rectified shortly.

Bug causes Microsoft Defender to flag actual Google links as malware

Defender could be messing up once again as Microsoft has confirmed it could be falsely flagging legitimate Google links as malware. Read more...