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Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines
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."
You call them "Editors". Why? They don't edit anything. All they do is wade through the "Free p1llz 2 make sausage fatter!" "Designer shoes for the women of your website" and "I hate all $demographic" posts, modding them down, and picking through the rest to get something worth reading on the fron... Wait, what's that? That's what the Firehose is for?
Then just what the fuck do these people do? They're not paid, are they?!
This is an English language website. Please hire some editors who can correct the grammar of non-English speakers (as is most likely the case here) before posts are on the front page. Here, let me give you an example:
" It [s]eems that [anti-virus vendor] Avira is having difficulty with an update of all their Premium customers' products. An update that has been downloaded over 70 million times is causing the 32-bit version of their AV software to block almost all critical Windows applications. Avira has responded promptly with an interim solution for this problem . In most cases this causes Windows to not boot properly."
I even added a link for you. I wasn't even paid to do this, and it took me 5 minutes.
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I forgot; The subject, unless defined, is assumed from the previous sentence. Really the last sentence should be changed so it doesn't parse as "In most cases (the interim solution) causes Windows to not boot properly." Still, most folk here know that's now what was intended.
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Yeah, thanks, buddy, the knee-jerk snarkiness and subject change really isn't helping.
50% troll, 50% insightful. I thought it was funny. It seems slashdot has been taken over by the Microsoft shills, anything remotely critical of Microsoft is modded "troll" (I had several of these abysmal mods yesterday in the thread about 30 new features in W8). Give it a rest, Ballmer.
Maybe you'll get four "underrated" mods and wind up with the coveted "+5 troll." I wish they'd bring back the old metamod system, this shit used to be rare. Now they'll mod you troll of flamebait for bashing Sony of all paople.
Damn but I hate astroturfing shills.
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