Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 21, 2010 @03:56AM from the it-actually-dispatches-a-man-with-a-bat dept.

alphadogg writes "Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working. The company acknowledged the issue in a note explaining the problem. 'Due to a recent update it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5,' the company said. The acknowledgment came after BitDefender users had logged hundreds of posts on the topic. Some complained of being unable to reboot their systems."

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Re:How many times does this happen? by 1s44c · 2010-03-21 10:44 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Windows security is certainly improving (fuck off if you think otherwise), but it's really a case of educating dumbass users. Linux is only 'more secure' because it's not generally used by dumbasses.
So... do you have a more practical solution? Didn't think so.
You can't get good security by improving something that's not designed to be secure. You can't educate users away from design problems, you have to replace the bad design.