Avast there indeed, matey, wail admins as rogue guard dog savages their jugular
7 May 2015 at 11:26, John Leyden
A misfiring signature update from anti-virus developer Avast triggered all sorts of problems on Wednesday.
Avast acted promptly by withdrawing the definition update but not before numerous users had fallen foul of the problem. The withdrawn update incorrectly labelled various libraries (dlls) on Windows PCs as potentially malign, crippling software installations in the process. More specifically, legitimate programs were classified as something called the "Kryptik-PFA" trojan, shuffled off to quarantine and blocked.
"We were affected with the removal of DLLs from TeamViewer rendering it useless, Corel, and MS XNA framework," one victim (Dan) told El Reg.
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