AVG Update Breaks iTunes

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 25, 2009 @12:20PM from the one-man's-virus-is-another-man's-music dept.

nate_in_ME writes "After getting a positive from the AVG virus detector while playing music on iTunes just a few minutes ago, I did a bit of research. It appears that AVG has recently pushed an update to the virus definitions that flags every iPod/iTunes related file as being infected with the 'Small.BOG' trojan. Interestingly enough, AVG does not have any information on this particular virus in their virus encyclopedia. Discussion on the Apple forum is up to 4 pages and climbing. One user there had an interesting thought: 'Maybe Palm has some shares in AVG...MUAHAAAA!!' (on page 3)."

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freeballer by freeballer · 2009-07-25 13:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

kinda stupid to compare palm cracking of itunes and this false positive, used to be virus scanners found false positives in x:\windows praise jebus now it just mucks up your itunes.. That being said, can't it not be defined as as an exception anyways? lol Not saying this wasn't a dumb mistake just saying its not newsworthy, inprobable, or easily fixed...