Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines 151
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."
Why, oh why... (Score:5, Funny)
Couldn't we be using Avira at work?
Then I could go home and play Diablo.
Very effective security. (Score:5, Funny)
This is a very effective security measure. If your system cannot boot it cannot get infected.
Artificial intelligence (Score:5, Funny)
It's a classic case of artificial intelligence vs. human stupidity. The artificial intelligence algorithm employed by Avira for keeping computers secure has determined that the only way to achieve real security for most users it's to turn the PC into a brick. Some people are simply too stupid to wander online unsupervised, so it's for their own protection. If you can restore your computer to normal operation, you have just passed the test and you are worthy of computer access.