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Stories · 3

  1. Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines

    Tech · Bug · · posted by timothy · from the malware-writers-have-won dept. · 151 comments
    New submitter Adesso writes "Anti-virus vendor Avira is having difficulty with an update of all their Premium customers. An update that has been downloaded over 70 million times is causing the 32-bit version of Windows to block almost all critical applications. Avira has responded promptly with an interim solution for this problem. In most cases this causes Windows to not boot properly."

  2. Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines

    Tech · Bug · · posted by timothy · from the malware-writers-have-won dept. · 151 comments
    New submitter Adesso writes "Anti-virus vendor Avira is having difficulty with an update of all their Premium customers. An update that has been downloaded over 70 million times is causing the 32-bit version of Windows to block almost all critical applications. Avira has responded promptly with an interim solution for this problem. In most cases this causes Windows to not boot properly."

  3. Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself

    Idle · · posted by samzenpus · from the marvin-the-anti-virus-robot dept. · 142 comments
    ddfall writes "After a recent update, Avira's anti-virus software reports its own AESCRIPT.DLL file as a trojan or spyware. From the article: 'The dodgy AntiVir virus definition file was quickly pulled and replaced with a new version – 7.11.16.146 – that resolves the problem, as explained in an official post on Avira's support forum.'"