Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs
Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop working.
The company acknowledged the issue in a note explaining the problem, posted Saturday. "Due to a recent update it is possible that BitDefender detects several Windows and BitDefender files as infected with Trojan.FakeAlert.5," the company said.
The acknowledgement came after BitDefender users had logged hundreds of posts on the topic. Some complained of being unable to reboot their systems.
"EVERY file that is trying to run is getting quarantined," one user, identified as lhmathys, reported. "Windows Explorer and even Bitdefender update itself is being quarantined. Someone really screwed this one up."
"We are in a really terrible position now," wrote another user, identified as ufitec. "We have 150 business clients and most of the pcs [on] which BitDefender thinks everything is virus does not boot any more!!!!"
Nokia reports loss ahead of first Windows Phone launcThere are no translations available. Nokia reported a net loss and a fall in revenue for the third quarter, despite selling more phones than analysts had expected. The company reported sales of £7.84 billion (US$12.33 billion), down 13 percent year on year, making a net loss of £59 million, compared to a net profit of £462 million a year earlier. The company stands and falls with its phone sales. During the third quarter it sold 106.6 million phones, down from 110.4 million during the same period last year, but still more than analyst Geoff Blaber of CCS Insight had expected. How much power needs the Internet?Reading this news, probably not wondering how much it cost electricity needed to view it. It turns out that considerable money at stake. |
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