Google updates Chrome to restore browser after Microsoft blunder

Google updated Chrome over the weekend to help users affected by Microsoft's errant flagging of the browser as malware.

New versions of Chrome for both the "stable" and "beta" channels were released Saturday, the day after Microsoft's antivirus products identified Chrome as the Zeus botnet Trojan, and deleted the "chrome.exe" file on some users' Windows PCs.

Although Microsoft re-released an antivirus definition file within hours of the Friday snafu, scores of Chrome users reported that they were unable to reinstall the browser or that if they had, they had lost their browser bookmarks. Google responded later Friday with a blog post that spelled out the steps Chrome users had to take to restore the browser.