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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."

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  1. Sucks to be on windows.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    On the mac we don't have these kind of problems. Mac's are better then PCs.

  2. Re:doh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    or buy a Mac

  3. Heh by d0n0vAn · · Score: -1, Troll

    Windows is a virus.

  4. Bug by saxoholic · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know... this sounds like a feature to me. AVG should hype this up. On another note, I have AVG, and haven't had this problem yet. Don't know if it's updated itself though.

  5. Re:doh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yea, so then you can't run anything. Not even viruses.

    Maybe some artsy fartsy programs. But games? No. Business software? No.

  6. Re:Well... by boogerme0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    But it's not "viruses."

  7. Re:Well... by jez9999 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah yes... Windows. The only system where I can be logged in as the super user only to be told I can't delete a file. Access Denied.

    Generally you'll get that message because the OS is currently using the file (.sys driver) or it's barely a file at all (pagefile, created dynamically by the OS). How could it let you delete either of them without immediately crashing the system? I doubt Unix would either.

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