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German security firm Avira has admitted it falsely warned that a beta version of an upcoming security package from its Romanian rival was contaminated with a Trojan. Few users outside the testing community would be running Avira and BitDefender 2011 beta 4 at the same time, so the incident is notable only as providing an …

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  1. JcRabbit
    FAIL

    Portuguese Blog?

    Whatever language that blog is in, it certainly isn't Portuguese.

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  2. WhiteHat_PT

    Not Portuguese blog

    Hi guys. It's an italian blog.

    Cheers.

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    1. jshombre
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      Italian?

      I can read Italian and it's definitely not that. Google Translate appears to agree that the language is Romanian.

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  3. jshombre
    Headmaster

    Portuguese?

    Looks more like Romanian to me.

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  4. the bat
    Terminator

    @jshombre

    you're correct it is a Romanian outfit. One of the most troublesome apps when it to comes removing.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    hmm

    the dev center for Avira is also located in Romania.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    Nothing new...

    ..you should never run 2 av's on a system for this very sort reason, that and when they detect each others quaratined virus files.. Thought that was standard knowledge

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  7. Mako

    That's given me an awsome idea...

    Take a modern, high-spec machine, put Windows 7 on it, and then load up every single piece of AV software you can get your hands on, (especially the kind that has on-access protection).

    Get em all running, and then see if the machine has enough resources left over to open an instance of Notepad.

    Have a dustpan and brush ready to clean up the smoking ruins.

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