Linked by David Adams on Wed 12th Nov 2008 17:09 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
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.
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2005-07-27
It is 'funny' that they are concerned in remarking that "apparently the problem only affects users running XP in Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish."... as if it meant only a handfull of users are affected.
By the amount of calls I got since monday morning about he issue I am amazed at the lack of testing this issue reveals...
Furthermore, for what I've told, it appears that user intervention is not really required to be affected, as the update prevents the system to boot (in 'normal mode') if you reboot it after the update took place, regardless of any warning or deletetion of any system file.
Edited 2008-11-12 18:00 UTC