"One more reason to use Linux."

erm no. Let us not forget that the worst internet worm attack ever that took the Internet down for days was on UNIX based systems....

I've been trying to uninstall AVG for weeks! No success so far.Hopefully, I'll hear from them..then I'll 'let'em have it!'

That's what I've been using since AVG went nagware and unreliable.

Big gold star sticker for AVG for this, extending the offer to free edition customers is really going above and beyond, let's hope they go through with it at least for the currently paying customers.

Pretty darn good of them, actually. (and clever too, since it's likely to get them more customers)

I doubt Symantec would do this, I doubt they'd even admit it was their fault if it happened..

Well, I for one am glad to see that AVG is a) admitting their mistake and b) doing something tangible to make it right for customers. Unfortunately, some idiot will probably sue them anyway, making companies like nVidia believe that its best to deceive and deny instead of coming clean.

They screwed up, they admitted it, and they did everything they could to make it right as quickly as possible. Great job, why can't more companies operate like this?

...."affected users" instead of infected? Not to be a nitpick, just saying...



Like most modern operating systems, Microsoft Windows supports shared libraries, collections of code which can be used by multiple processes while only being loaded once into memory. Windows terms its shared libraries Dynamic-link libraries (DLL's).

Most core Windows functionality is contained within Native Applications and a set of DLL's, which together provide the various subsystems in which code can run (Win32, SUA, Virtual DOS machine, etc.).

User32.dll
user32.dll allows programs to implement a graphical user interface. It contains basic functions, such as window management, user input, text, etc. shell32.dll uses these functions to implement Windows' standard controls, including buttons, check boxes, and input fields.

Saying, "the company wishes to apologize" is not the same thing as actually apologizing, and is in fact a way of avoiding just that while giving an impression they have apologized.

Their wishes are not their actions.

After the joy of recovering your system, do really want another year of the product that crashed it? 


Only two weeks ago I uninstalled AVG 8 from my last computer. The bloat and lack of control made it too cumbersome.

Avast! is working well so far.

AVG is constantly bleating about things which it thinks are Trojans but are totally benign. One more reason to use Linux.