Archive for May 19th, 2007
Symantec virus update cripples “thousands” of Chinese PCs
From the Computerworld story:
A signature update to Symantec’s anti-virus software crippled thousands of Chinese PCs Friday when the security software took two critical Windows .dll files for malware.
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“With these files removed, Windows XP will no longer start up, and even the system Safe Mode no longer functions,” said one user writing to the alt.comp.anti-virus newsgroup [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2007 under China, Code, Corporations, Main, Tech.
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