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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Member since:2006-11-30
Seeing how 99% of the time it's the user's fault a system gets infected, it only makes sense to remove the user and solve this problem once and for all.
Agreed, I haven't run any AntiVirus products in years and never had a single virus except maybe for one case that was my own fault (putting a "friends" HD in my computer).
I even always regret when I run a check once or twice a year since the only outcome is wasted time.
So, I think AVG is really on to something. ;-)
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2005-11-11
Seeing how 99% of the time it's the user's fault a system gets infected, it only makes sense to remove the user and solve this problem once and for all.