Vaccine Program 'Alyac' Ransomware Detection Error... PCs Freezing One After Another

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Kyung-jun] The vaccine program 'Alyac' is causing errors by mistakenly identifying legitimate programs as ransomware and sending out ransomware blocking alert messages. The program experiencing the error is the public version of Alyac (v.2.5.8.617), according to the company.

On the 30th, users of 'Alyac' from the security company ESTsecurity reported that when using certain programs on their PCs, a "ransomware blocking alert message" appears, preventing them from using the affected programs.

Many users, trusting the blocking alert message, have taken ransomware blocking measures, resulting in serious issues such as Windows becoming unresponsive and improper rebooting.

Alyac is presumed to be mistakenly recognizing the default processes installed on Windows as ransomware and displaying such messages.

ESTsecurity posted an urgent notice on its homepage regarding the public version of Alyac, stating, "An error in ransomware detection occurred in the Alyac public version updated at 11:30 AM today, and we are currently conducting a precise cause analysis and emergency response."

They added, "There is no impact on the enterprise version," and said, "We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused during product use and will do our best to restore normal operation as soon as possible."

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