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Microsoft Defender Falsely Detects Win32/Hive.ZY In Google Chrome Electron Apps

What Is It?

Here is a BleepingComputer news article written by Lawrence Abrams about a current false positive / malware database (signature update) issue with Microsoft’s Windows Security / Microsoft Defender called: Microsoft Defender Falsely Detects Win32/Hive.ZY In Google Chrome, Electron Apps.

Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY – Issue look through !

Here is a brief description of this news article:

A bad Microsoft Defender signature update mistakenly detects Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Discord, and other Electron apps as ‘Win32/Hive.ZY’ each time the apps are opened in Windows.

The issue started Sunday morning when Microsoft pushed out Defender signature update 1.373.1508.0 to include two new threat detections, including Behavior:Win32/Hive.ZY.

“This generic detection for suspicious behaviors is designed to catch potentially malicious files.

If you downloaded a file or received it through email, ensure that it is from a reliable source before opening it,” reads the Microsoft detection page for Win32/Hive.ZY.

According to BornCity, the false positive is widespread, with users reporting on BleepingComputerTwitter, and Reddit that the detections appear each time they open their browser or an Electron app.

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Miscellaneous

Windows Defender Review

Tom’s Guide has a pretty good review of the free antivirus / antimalware program Windows Defender / Microsoft Defender / Windows Security in a post called Windows Defender Review:

https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/windows-defender

I am glad that Windows Defender / Microsoft Defender / Windows Security (Microsoft keeps changing the name) is continuing to improve.

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Dreams

Football With Coworkers | My Cousin TE

Dream 1

All that I can remember of this dream is that it involved some of my coworkers from The BP Library and I playing American football, and that is all that I can remember of this dream.

Dream 2

This dream took place during the day and I was inside my parents house standing in the dining room, and my mom was in the kitchen.

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Dreams

A Nintendo Presentation?

Source: Wikimedia Commons

I got in bed very late after staying up to watch anime on Toonami like I usually do on Saturdays and it ends on Sunday morning (9:30 PM Saturday – maybe 3:00 AM Sunday) and so I did not save most of my dreams except for barely part of one or two dreams which I will type as one because I am not sure if it is two dreams or one.

This dream or dreams took place during the day until early evening, and near the end of the dream I remember being either inside or outside in an area that had a table that looked like the outdoor table at The E House in front of the laundry building.

There was a female employee (possibly a Nintendo employee) with light-color skin with long straight medium-to-dark color hair wearing a tucked in work tennis shirt and pants who was about to give a presentation, and she had things set up on the table.

I walked over to watch her presentation that seemed to be about either the Nintendo Switch video game console and some video game accessories for it and / or a fictional new Nintendo console with some accessories.

As I watched and listened to her presentation there were some other people walking around in the background, maybe a few of them stopped briefly to watch like a male and female couple with light-color skin who were walking arm and arm, but they did not stay long.

After the presentation I asked the female employee a few questions about the video game accessories that included a cheap-looking very narrow video game controller that was connected to something and a keyboard by a company that started with an A, and she let me touch and try out the items as she started to put the stuff up in a small building behind her that had a garage-like door.

As she was doing this and starting to close the garage-like door a short somewhat overweight old woman with light-color skin with white / silver / gray hair who looked like the manager walked over, and I remember hoping that the female employee would not get in trouble for leaving some items near me when she was not looking.

The next thing that I remember is sitting in a bedroom with a large window or windows and curtain or curtains that had a view of a parking lot, and there was a car parked right outside my window and it looked like maybe my aunt RE was inside of it.

My parent’s were possibly gone somewhere and it was getting darker outside, the thin curtains were closed but not the main curtains, and so I was worried about people seeing me because it was getting darker and so it was time to close the curtains but I did not want my aunt to see me so I sat there still waiting for her to leave first.

I was not sure if she could see me or not, I am not sure if the bedroom that I was in was inside a house or apartment or where it was, but it felt like maybe I was near or in a building that was connected to a shopping center-like area that possibly included the area where the woman had given that Nintendo presentation.

At some point my aunt drove away, so I closed the main curtains, and then my parent’s returned and I told them about how I saw my aunt parked outside.

But that is all that I can remember of this dream.

The end,

-John Jr

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Dreams

Getting Ready For Work As A Power Ranger?

This dream was possibly partly inspired by Chris Stuckmann’s Power Rangers – Movie Review that I watched on YouTube before going to sleep:

All that I can remember of this dream from last night is that during the dream I woke up in my parent’s house, and I got out of bed to get ready for work because I did not have much time.

My mom, my dad, and my brother GC were awake and eating some breakfast that my mom had made which included full links of maybe boiled Richard’s Mild Krazy Kajun Smoked Sausage.

I grabbed a plate of breakfast trying to eat the sausage quickly as I tried to get ready for work and maybe talk with my family, but then I heard the dogs barking at something outside so I looked out of the kitchen windows to see what they were barking at.

It seemed that the dogs were barking at the cats outside in the yard, there was a disturbance among the cats, and I assumed that maybe a stray cat was attacking one of the cats as usual or something like that.

As I was rushing to finish eating my sausage while standing in the kitchen I noticed one or more of the cats looking at something on the ground outside of the kitchen window by the trash can.

On the ground was a brown leather or fake leather purse, the cats wanted to get closer to it but they were being cautious, and I asked my mom if it was her purse and if she wanted me to go get it.

My mom looked out of the window and she said that she did not recognize the purse and that it was not hers, but she probably did not say whether she wanted me to go outside and get it or not.

I did not think that leaving the purse outside on the ground was a good idea, and so I was probably going to bring it inside before leaving for work if no one else was going to.

I hoped to find out who the purse belonged to, and if not we would probably give it to someone.

While I was dealing with this and trying to finish my sausage, I was also checking maybe my mobile phone looking at a probably live video showing some Power Rangers (probably in the style of the rangers from the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) outside during the day doing very long intros (introductions) for each ranger before their fight starts, and I seemed to be checking this to see how much time I had like maybe I was working as a Power Ranger and needed to show up there before they finish their intros.

Their long intros included lots of flips, I remember almost being done with eating my sausage and I was trying to estimate if I would make it to work on time, but I woke up.

The end,

-John Jr