Microsoft Defender scares admins with Emotet false positives
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:49 pm
This just happened to me, which is why I researched it and found this article. Opening an Excel spreadsheet (same spreadsheet I use every year with my Xmas card list) and it triggered. It didn't keep me from opening the spreadsheet, just gave me a Defender alert and when I checked the log, it said it killed two processes running Win32/PowEmotet.SB
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/m ... positives/
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