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Avira owns up to BitDefender Trojan false alarm

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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JcRabbit
FAIL

Portuguese Blog?

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

WhiteHat_PT

Not Portuguese blog

Hi guys. It's an italian blog.

Cheers.

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.

jshombre
Headmaster

Portuguese?

Looks more like Romanian to me.

the bat
Terminator

@jshombre

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

Anonymous Coward
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hmm

the dev center for Avira is also located in Romania.

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

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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