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AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File
secmartin writes "The popular virus scanner AVG released an update yesterday that caused their software to mark user32.dll as a virus. Since this is a rather critical file, AVG's suggestion to remove it caused problems for users around the world who are now advised to restore the file through the Windows Recovery Console. AVG just posted an update about this (FAQ item 1574) in the support section of their site. Their forums are full of complaints."
Just doing it's job!
This is actually a patch that they tried to roll out to fix Ubuntu bug #1, a great stride forward too.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slashdot.org Errors found while checking this document as HTML5!
I must admit I don't recommend it anymore, however if it kills Windows systems it's just gone up in my estimation :-)
If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
Should have gone for the gold, marked Explorer.exe and iExplore...
Actually the free versions always get their updates later than the paid for versions, so it's the paying customers who were affected the most by this.
So not paying institutes messing up your pc?
Then I know some people from the Cosa Nostra that I want you to meet...
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
That's Why I moved to Linux....oh wait...nevermind.
I Need someone to rebuild a Digitech Digital Delay pedal for me....for me...for me...for me.
I've been using AVG at customers sites since version 6.. It has, over the years, deleted entire outlook pst's, repeatedly uninstalled VNC servers and radmin, and generally been grumpy for the slightest reason.
I am a sucker for punishment, because I still keep using it. It's just as good as the rest, it's half the price, and noticably faster than all the others I've tried.
I think that, however, the entire concept of antivirus is going to have to fail, and we'll need a whitelist, rather than a blacklist.
There has been quite a bit of discussion about this over the years, and it's going to come true.
Oh. And as an added bonus, Slashdot is screwing up my display. When I load the page, I get the comments page, and then it clears and I get a spammy IBM flash ad of some sort. Serves me right for not installing ABP after a reinstall.
--Rob
Schlock Mercenary.
Careful what you bare, you saw how quick it cut off that dll file :D
Windows really is a virus and not an operating system. The user32.dll file is the one that phones home to Microsoft and has that "NSA Backdoor" in it.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
"nearly 80% of all websites kill a kitten when you visit with out a spyware blocker?"
It's actually one of the HTTP status codes
463 - NO_MORE_KITTEN
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your operating systems and I realized that you're not actually cross platform. Every OS on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding community but you Windows users do not. You move to a hardware manufacturer and you multiply and multiply until every desktop is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another OEM. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Windows is a disease, a cancer of this planet.
You're a plague and AVG is the cure.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Why do people always decide to grin and bare it on Slashdot? I mean, couldn't they at least include a NSFW tag?
It's just not Kosher, sometimes.
>> Standing on head makes smile of frown, but rest of face also upside down.
Thus we see the ultimate Open Source solution for anti virus is to remove the vectors which viruses cannot attack.
So, Microsoft got it right?
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Also, don't tell anyone, to prevent AVG from changing it.
Especially not any popular websites.
Modding me -1 troll doesn't make me wrong.
I run AVG in wine. how else can i tell if i'm getting the viruses!
This is a joke. I am joking. Joke joke joke.
That should be Pirii, not Pirates.
No, it's Pirates, dammit! Now I'm going to lecture you about the proper pluralization of latin sounding words because I think you're a dumbass trying to look educated, there is no way you would make a common mistake for comedic value. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/humor
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How is that an error? Cats are fucking annoying.
263 No More Kitten.
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Well, better than my slip up. I was working at an office with a secretary. She was showing me around the place, where the machines were etc. We had finished and needed to get back to her station to fix her system. Guess what I said without even thinking?
"Well I guess we should go now and take a look at your box." She laughed pretty hard.
I couldn't believe that I said that.
I'm not anti-social, I'm anti-idiot.
No, Avast ye scurvy viruses, dammit!
There's no such thing as "viruses", just there's no "mouses". "Virus" is the plural for "virua".
Other commonly confused words include "bus", the plural of "bue", "adress" for "adreso" (tricky one!). Not many people know or use those words correct hence the mess we're in.
But some words are catching up faster than others, such as the popular "yes", which is the plural of "yea".