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On Tuesday AVG Technologies released an update for their AVG 8 antivirus product that falsely detects a Windows XP system file as a virus.  Specifically, it sees the file as a Trojan horse and users who delete this file are in for a shock.  Their system may enter into an infinite reboot loop, or worse, not even boot at all.  AVG immediately released a follow-up update that contained a fix for the false positive detection.  Users who are experiencing problems should acquire the fix tool from AVG.

The good news is that the update only affects AVG 8 products running on Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, and French versions of Windows XP. 

[more]AVG has long been emerging as a leader in the home PC antivirus market, with their free product protecting millions of users world wide.  Recently, the Czech-based company has suffered from some embarrassing setbacks.  In October, an AVG update detected some ZoneAlarm firewall files as a virus and in July the company had to reconfigure its Linkscanner tool when site operators started to complain about an increase in traffic due to the tool’s proactive scanning techniques.

Still, users should not begin to panic about the AVG product.  The company may have made a couple of mistakes, but their software protects millions of users from millions of threats and at little to no charge for the end-user.  AVG 8 continues to be the best performing and widely supported free antivirus program on the market today. 

AVG Free can protect you from viruses, spyware, adware, and identity-theft.  The number of threats out there grows everyday and if you don’t have protection on your PC, you are putting yourself at risk.  If you don’t already have a virus scanner, I would encourage you to download a copy today.