Avg Anti-Virus Breaks Down Windows Xp Due To False Positive

[Chicog]

This is criminal, what on earth kind of testing do they do (or not do) that allows a cock-up like this?

The popular AVG Anti-Virus software incorrectly flagged a vital Windows system file as Trojan horse, causing a failed boot in case the user opted to remove the “infection.”

According to an official post by the company, the anti-virus application identified the wintrust.dll Windows system file as Generic32.FJU Trojan horse, asking the user to either clean the infection or remove it completely.

Since it’s a critical system file, cleaning it fails in most cases, so some users decided to remove it. That blocks the boot of the Windows operating system after the first reboot, a few affected consumers confirmed.

AVG responded promptly and issued a new virus definition update to fix the problem detected in AVG Anti-virus 9 and 2012 editions running on Windows XP.

Users who have already removed the file are recommended to boot Windows XP with the Rescue CD in order to copy the original wintrust.dll file back to the system32 folder.

[BlackPuddingBertha]

Again.

[JetsetBkk]

Oh dear.

I stopped using it years ago. Now I use MSE on WinXP. Works fine for me.

[MAJIC]

Another Anti Virus to watch out for is McCaffee on Vista,it literally took over my system,and kept popping up,not to mention slowed my laptop down to a snails pace. even after deletion,a Restore to a previous date was necessary. Never again,it's back to MSE for me.

[pattayadingo]

That is definitely bad news for AVG, an anti-virus that used to be so well rated.

I use Trend Housecall online ANTI-VIRUS these days ever since AVG screwed up a couple of times before.

[VocalNeal]

Hmmm. I used AVG trouble free for years on XP up until a few weeks ago it worked fine.

[Chicog]

Avast 8 for me.