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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2006-11-30
As I said, I do run a check periodically.
In my first sentence I meant that I don't actively scan for anything.
Edited 2008-11-12 20:01 UTC