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Reminds me of this: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/microsoft_antis ...

why is everyone dumping on microsoft about this when it seems that its kaspersky's fault entirely.

How much you want to bet it was a disgruntled employee? There is no way that ***** got through unless there is ZERO QA on their sig files.

I stopped using kaspersky years ago for this very reason, sad to see that the spiral downward didn't end there...
And to the linux fanboys, you're really giving your OS a bad name by proving at least some of their userbase consists of e-penis envious morons that feel so threatend by windows that you have to slag it in an article such as this.

this is a retarded no story, i like linux and i like windows.. stop being tools about it. If people don't like windows don't use it but I really don't feel like hearing everyone bitch about an operating system all ***** day. Ok, windows does crash every now and then. Ive run it for multiple weeks at a time without a problem, if thats only 65% efficient compared to X operating system then whatever. Most of the problems come down to ***** 3rd party applications anyways. I don't run antivirus and I don't get malware, trojans, etc just because im not retarded.. hmmm 36kb dropitlikeitshot.com file..YAY my favorite song why don't i download it and play it.. oh wait.. its a virus .. damn you microsoft.

Trust me i could give a ***** if microsoft went the way of the dinosaur, the second that linux can provide me better compatability I will switch to it. Till then I'll deal with your occassional bug.

You Linux/Mac fanboys are pathetic.

I love the windows hate.

The fact of the matter is, too all you people who think your uber cool because you exclusively run *nix, windows is targeted because of its popularity, if *nix gained the sort of intall base windows did then you would get viruses / worms / trojans targeted purely at *nix, windows is simply better, i expect to get dugg down for that comment.

I think the general consensus on digg is if you follow the norm then your labelled as a noob, i read most comments on this site, but rarely comment myself as i usually do not feel the way of the general digg user who i genuinely feel must try to put thereself in the *elite* group, or so they think when really they're just nobodys with limited knowledge.

just from a personal background, i am actually a high level programmer, not some casual user, with 3 PC's at home, 2 XP, 1 ubuntu and let me tell you now, ubuntu machine hasnt been turned on in roughly 3 - 4 months, the problems with *nix are so abundant its scary, and ill freely admit now, that is due to the smaller install base, drivers not available from companies etc, i remember my first experience of *nix which isnt applicable now but back in the days of RH9 i actually paid £35 for it from PC world, boxed manual etc (im UK) and the ***** thing didnt even natively find my geforce card when at the time it was the most popular card there was, that is an absolute joke, i spent hours setting it up, not some simple driver install like on windows, but actually editing config files, that is a simple problem i admit, but i had many more drastic problems than that (MBR for eg, *nix for the low level user does not make it simple at all to go from *nix to windows and yet i never see any comments about this, just how microsoft try and lock you down into there software)

I expect to get dugg down for this comment, but i really felt the urge to comment on this post.

Windows is better, its software is better (Gimp vs PS? and dont give me that WINE *****, that program is a joke), simple as that im afraid.

The company I work for sells systems loaded with Kaspersky. You wouldn't believe the number of support calls we got yesterday about this...

Yep , that's about right.

No, viruses tend to be small, fast, and well programmed.

Kaspersky may have made a big blunder with this, but it's still a superior product to 99% of the A/V (and firewall) crap that's out there. Norton/Symantec, Norman AV and McAfee both routinely cause huge problems for my customers.

I recommend them Kaspersky or NOD32, or AVG. Those three hadn't let me down until this issue with Kaspersky.
Still, I'll be a loyal customer to them. Things like these happen.

Kaspersky made an error but the software doesn't do anything until you tell it to. I run it myself and got a little prompt telling me about a "trojan.generic". I did a little research and realized it was a bug so I told Kaspersky to ignore it. Like most problems this one can be solved with a little common sense; something Linux or OS-X does not come with out of the box - it is either pre-installed between your ears or it isn't.

AVG once deleted my Paint =

This post lacks a high-rated comment.

It is widely known that heuristic scan developers give special attention to Windows core parts because they sometimes act like a virus themselves. Also it is surprising that no comment/story tells an interesting fact, Kaspersky updates its definitions like every HOUR, so in case your explorer was "locked", it would need just 1 hour to make it work again.

Just a friendly reminder. The rivals Kaspersky shows as a joke when tested head to head have advertising/PR contracts like 20x large than entire Kaspersky Inc.
Just reminding in case you only heard THIS story while there were numerous times that those big monsters software didn't just falsely alerted the user, in some cases, it became security issue ITSELF allowing remote interaction.

NOD32 FTW

You people act like this is a bad thing.

This was detected and wiped out by my zonealarm earlier today. The only way to fix windows was to boot into safe mode and reinstall explorer from the windows cd. Otherwise it just loads your desktop background and the UI never comes up. Kind of annoying to say the least. I'm sure there are a bunch of ***** off people who don't know how to fix their system.

I'm amazed at what Microsoft operating systems contend with. Not long ago, a popular firewall was creating headaches. Millions of modifications and add-ons to the system and in comparison, few problems. People buy Windows and immediately begin modifying the program. They scream bloody murder if all they do to the system, eventually causes problems.

I've had Kaspersky for a few months and I'm pretty happy with it. At least it finds threats unlike Norton which will tell you everything's fine when you know there are problems on the PC. And when Norton does find something it's never able to fix it.

The EULA and cost of windows means it could hardly be a virus. However, the WGA makes Windows more of an elaborate spyware software, IMHO.

***** happens. Case closed.

I had a blast reinstalling Kaspersky on 25 computers on Thursday. assholes

My IQ dropped 15 points from reading this comment thread.

Wow, I didn't know Kapersky was this incompetent. They just came off my "ever consider them" list.

It should detect Windows Vista as a virus, and uninstall it when it's detected.

That would be correct. Windows is the mother of all viruses.

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Kaspersky is still the best anti-virus program on the market and their detection percentages outweigh small mistakes.

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I moved off Windows a few years ago with the exception of a couple of games I like to play. I can honestly say that I've never been happier to say goodbye to all the spyware and viruses on that system. At first I wondered how limited I would be by not sitting on the biggest distributed OS ever. But I've not found myself wanting Windows for anything else but gaming. I could set up some VM stuff so I never had to boot to Windows, but I just don't want to spend the time to do it. So in my life Windows has been relegated to a gaming OS only.

No actually Internet Explorer is a virus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fh9Ityy8hI http://nixedblog.thenixedreport.com/?p=111 http://nixedblog.thenixedreport.com/?p=82