CA anti-virus says Windows file is a virus

All over the internet and especially in the tech community, Microsoft and its operating system Windows have been complained about countless times. The Windows bashing has just reached another level, as the program CA Anti-Virus flagged one of Windows XPs system files as a virus. Luckily, the program was inable to delete the file, so it was only quarantined, meaning that .AVB was added to the filename, to render it useless for any program trying to access it. However, as this was a Windows system file, the operating system started giving errors which created a panic amongst the users. CA did not release information about what was going on immediately as they became aware of the problem, which enraged the users even further. To fix the operating system, users can either remove the file ending .AVB from the file(s) or CA has released a tool to fix it automatically.

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Andrewr05 on July 10, 2009 06:58AM LMAO --- I can picture the uneducated PC users getting frightened... --- The look on their faces... "Oh Noooo, Not my harddrive!!!" (referring to the tower its self as the hardrive) reply to this

William on July 10, 2009 05:27PM Lol I can picture that, except my uneducated PC friends call their tower "CPU's" reply to this

Geekspeak411 on July 10, 2009 07:39AM hahaha dumb@** programmers reply to this

Comp Dude2 on July 12, 2009 10:09AM I dont get it, this is not microsoft's fault and it is hardly the end of the world.......so what are people complaining about? reply to this

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