Peaches Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 April 12, 2011 8:12 AM PDT Avast update blocks legitimate Web sites by Lance Whitney An update rolled out yesterday to Avast's antivirus product contained a bug that flags legitimate Web sites as malware infected. In a blog post late yesterday, Avast acknowledged the false positive glitch in an update known as 110411-1, which was automatically rolled out to Avast AV users earlier that day. The error has specifically affected versions 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x of Avast's antivirus software. In an e-mail to CNET, an Avast spokesman said today that the update was downloaded by around 5 million users, mostly on the Western Hemisphere due to the time in which it was launched. In-house sensors discovered the problem just a few minutes after the buggy update was released, and Avast workers managed to create and release a fix within 45 minutes, according to the company. Known as 110411-2, the fix must be manually installed. Avast is advising all users to ... Read full post & comments -= http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20053085-83.html http://news.cnet.com/security/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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