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AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File

Posted by kdawson on from the it-just-acts-like-one dept.

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."

5 of 440 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's sad... by maxume · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to the install directory and rename "avgresf.dll" and "afgmwdef_us.mht" (adding a .bak or whatever should work fine). I did this a few days ago and the notification bar is no more, with no apparent problems.

    Also, don't tell anyone, to prevent AVG from changing it.

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    Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
  2. Re:doh by thetrick · · Score: 5, Informative

    McAfee had a similar issue:

    http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/13/1322215.shtml

  3. Re:Arrr! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, Avast ye scurvy viruses, dammit! Not everything that looks vaguely latin should be pluralized with an i, and most certainly nothing should be pluralized by changing the word-final "us" to "ii"! You're just a dumbass trying to look educated, and failing miserably. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/virus

  4. Re:It's sad... by e+r+i+k+0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm thinking that's a server-side error, so it should actually be 563 No More Kitten if you're following RFC 2616 correctly.

  5. Re:Well... by Opyros · · Score: 5, Informative

    Arguably, it should just be "viruses". Not all Latin words retain Latinate plurals in English (e.g. "circus/circuses"), and not all Latin words ending in -us had plurals ending in -i. See this excerpt from the alt.usage.english FAQ for more. </pedantry>