Microsoft’s Latest Patch Hoses Some Antivirus Software

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McAfee, Sophos and Avast are among the antivirus software suites impacted.


Microsoft’s April 9 security update is bogging down systems running antivirus software packages made by McAfee, Avast, ArcaBit, Avira and Sophos.

According to Microsoft, the company’s April Patch Tuesday security update is causing some systems to have slow startup times, sluggish performance or become completely unresponsive. For days now, Microsoft has been adding more antivirus titles to those impacted by the issue.

Those antivirus titles affected are: Sophos Endpoint and Sophos Enterprise Console, Avira antivirus software, ArcaBit antivirus software, Avast and McAfee Security Threat Prevention 10.x and McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 8.0...

Continued: Microsoft’s Latest Patch Hoses Some Antivirus Software
April 19, 2019

[ScriptMan]

For those affected I read a nice review of windows Defender the other day. Apparently it has made some nice strides.