Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish users of the popular anti-virus software AVG have discovered a nasty surprise. AVG has mistakenly identified a core Windows system file, user32.dll, as a Trojan, and summarily deletes it, b0rking Windows. AVG has announced they're working on a fix.Interestingly, I cannot find this on AVG's website, neither in the News or Updates section. So judge for yourself.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
AVG Antivirus Accidentally Kills Windows
Saw this on OSNews.Com. Users of AVG Anti-Virus beware:
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