Linked by David Adams on Wed 12th Nov 2008 17:09 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Bugs & Viruses 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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RE[2]: IMO
by Doc Pain on Sat 15th Nov 2008 21:00 UTC in reply to "RE: IMO"
Doc Pain
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2006-10-08

I think AVG had it right, Windows IS the virus... ;)


According to the article:

"AVG has announced they're working on a fix."

Keep cool, man! Don't hesitate, you've got all the time you want. Program slowly and with your clients' benefit in mind. :-)

10: echo Looking for USER32.DLL...
goto 10

:-)

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