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."

Comments

For crying out loud

[NoSleepDemon]

Come on editors, would it kill you to actually READ the submissions before publishing them? Come back Taco :(

Re:For crying out loud

[Anonymous Coward]

"seemS [anti-virus vendor] avira is having difficulty with a 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."

missing letters in capitals.

Re:For crying out loud

[L4t3r4lu5]

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.

Re:For crying out loud

[Anonymous Coward]

Trolling is a art.

Re:For crying out loud

[L4t3r4lu5]

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.

Re:For crying out loud

[vlm]

responded promptly with an interim solution for this problem [avira.com]

Minor technical error remains. You meant to write

responded promptly with an interim solution for this problem

Re:For crying out loud

[djsmiley]

With all the rage, its almost like your paying to view this....

Wait, PEOPLE DO?! XD

Re:For crying out loud

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, thanks, buddy, the knee-jerk snarkiness and subject change really isn't helping.

Re:For crying out loud

[helix2301]

I agree bring back taco he fact checked everything and since when does Slashdot post forum threads. Sorry to say but I think the sight is on a slow slippery slope. After a quick product update all was fixed. Why was this even posted?

Re:For crying out loud

[camperdave]

" 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."

Just curious - wouldn't it read better like this:

"It seems that [anti-virus vendor] Avira is having difficulty with an update of all their Premium customers' products. The update, which 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 the malfunctioning update causes Windows to not boot properly."

Re:For crying out loud

[denmarkw00t]

You beat me to it! I had it ready to copy-edit - maybe /. should hire us to be editors? Of course, now I can do my own rewrite instead of the grammatically correct one you posted above:

Avira totally pisses off customers.

I think that sums it up

Re:For crying out loud

[mcgrew]

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.

Re:For crying out loud

[mcgrew]

With all the rage, its almost like your paying to view this

Timothy? Is that you?

New Mod Needed

[SuperKendall]

What would be great is if Slashdot introduced a new moderation which was "better summary", 20 up votes and the summary in the post would replace the main one...