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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Comment by merkoth
by merkoth on Wed 12th Nov 2008 17:21 UTC
merkoth
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2006-09-22

First that stupid browser extension that spammed the intertubes and now this. Hell, even being free, it isn't worth the money...