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Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines

Posted by timothy on from the malware-writers-have-won dept.

New submitter Adesso writes "Anti-virus vendor Avira is having difficulty with an update of all their Premium customers. An update that has been downloaded over 70 million times is causing the 32-bit version of Windows to block almost all critical applications. Avira has responded promptly with an interim solution for this problem. In most cases this causes Windows to not boot properly."

2 of 151 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why, oh why... by metalgamer84 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yep, exactly why I refuse to purchase D3. If they release a patch down the line that doesn't require me to be online with their servers just to play single player, then I will buy it.

  2. These are the same geniuses... by nuckfuts · · Score: 3, Interesting

    that recently had Avira anti-virus identify itself as malware:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/26/avira_auto_immune_false_positive/