The antivirus of Microsoft considered Chrome a virus

Anti-virus Microsoft application of Security Essentials began to identify the Google Chrome browser as the malware and as a result deleted it with the PC of thousands of users.

The antivirus began to distinguish Chrome as modification of PWS: Win32/Zbot on Friday, is a variation of the Trojan of Zeus. After that the browser automatically was blocked and removed from all machines where it was detected. By different estimates, about 3 thousand users suffered.

Many people regarded the event as acceptance of unfair competition as in the world market of the Chrome browsers already fairly "impaired a little blood" Internet Explorer. "It is a real problem or Microsoft just tries to salt Google?", - one of participants of a forum of support of Google wrote. "It is a plot of Microsoft!", - another answered it.

However, Microsoft already apologized for the incident and quickly released a patch which eliminated this failure of settings. "Affected users need to update manually Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to the last signatures", said in the official statement of corporation.

For this purpose it is necessary to start MSE, to pass into a window of updates and to click "Update". Then it is required to install on the Google Chrome computer again. Besides, Google already released an update for automatic recovery of Chrome by damaged machines.

According to the representative of Google Jason Kersey, stable release of Chrome the beta – to 15.0.874.58 is updated to 14.0.835.187, and. "These updates should help if Chrome was deleted as a result of incorrect work of Microsoft Security Essentials", - he added.

Many affected users, however, complain that they lost all the tabs. Let's note that unfair methods of competitive struggle are frequent in the software market, but it is difficult to catch every time of vendors by a hand and to prove their participation in the event.

According to the latest data of web analysts, positions of IE in the world market of browsers reeled at the expense of the growing popularity of Chrome, also as well as positions earlier positioned as alternative the Firefox browser. The share of IE for the first time for many years fell below psychologically important mark of 50%.

Date provider StatCounter stated that Chrome instead of Firefox will take the second place after Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) no later than December of this year. As of September, according to this company, Chrome share in the world market of browsers made 23.6%, Firefox – 26.8%. IE occupied 41.7% of the market.

Growth of audience of Chrome in 2011 was impressive: the browser share from January to September increased by about eight points, and in general the growth rate was 50%. For the same period of Firefox lost nearly 4% or 13% of the share for the beginning of year, and IE lost 9% of the share in the market. It means that Chrome seriously steps on heels of Firefox and IE.

If this trend until the end of the year does not change, then the audience of Chrome will come very close to number of users of Firefox in November, at the same time in December its indicators will exceed Firefox indicators. Their shares will be distributed, according to the forecast as 26.6% to 25.3%.

StatCounter not the only company which is engaged in measurement of a share of browsers. The American firm Net Applications, for example, shows a much bigger gap between Firefox and Chrome. According to this company for August, shares of browsers made: Firefox – 22.6%, and at Chrome have only 15.5%.