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April 25, 2005

Slow death by anti-virus update

If you're running Trend Micro PC-cillin anti-virus, and your machine has been acting up, you might check this out.

Rafe Needleman found that after his wife and his mother installed a pattern update for their anti-virus package, CPU usage shot to 100 per cent. He had to boot both PCs in safe mode, delete the bad file, and then reboot. His comment:

I fear this update might be causing very serious problems out there in the real world, where people don't have access to geeks willing to run down bugs like this.

Posted by cw at April 25, 2005 12:25 PM

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