AVG 8 update messes up Windows XP systems!

AVG 8 update messes up Windows XP systems!

AVG has yet another PR disaster in their hands.

One of the recent updates issued by the company marked an important Windows system file as a harmful file.

It advised the users to delete the file.

The file if deleted caused stability problems on the Windows XP machines.

The company said in a statement on this glitch: “AVG is actively working to remedy the problem some users are experiencing related to the most recent update to commercial and free versions of AVG 7.5 and AVG 8.0 in some languages. A number of users who installed the update mistakenly received a warning that the Windows system file user32.dll product version 5.1.2600.3099 was infected with a Trojan virus and were prompted to delete a file essential to the operation of Windows XP.”

They have now made available a fix tool on its site.

This is not the first time AVG has caused problems for their users. Sometime back, an update resulted in declaration of a popular firewall application as a trojan horse.

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