If you use AVG Free anti virus and run Windows 64 bit Do NOT apply the latest AVG update or your PC will be bricked at next reboot.

Recovery involves making a boot CD you have to download from AVG (hard if your only PC is bricked)

Really shot themselves in the foot with this one.

Bricked?

Can you be more specific...not a term I understand let alone use..Sorry

Bricked?

Can you be more specific...not a term I understand let alone use..Sorry

Translated into " Yorkshire" for you Chris " FC UKed"

Edited 4 December, 201015 yr by Auric Goldfinger

I updated my AVG the other day, and have rebooted the computer several times since, with no problems.

I updated my AVG the other day, and have rebooted the computer several times since, with no problems.

Obviously not a NetWork Rail Fail computer then

AVG pulled the affected update shortly after they were made aware of the problem. So update away.

I replaced AVG with MSSE a while back. So far, so good.

Yeah, dropped AVG after they dropped auto updates from AVG 2011... MSSE here now as well...

...your PC will be bricked at next reboot.

Recovery involves making a boot CD you have to download from AVG (hard if your only PC is bricked)

Bricked?

Can you be more specific...not a term I understand let alone use..Sorry

Not really 'bricked' if you can recover it using a boot CD. I understood bricked to mean reduced to an unusable/unrecoverable plastic 'brick'.

Not really 'bricked' if you can recover it using a boot CD. I understood bricked to mean reduced to an unusable/unrecoverable plastic 'brick'.

I think the word was used with some artist licence lol

AVG pulled the affected update shortly after they were made aware of the problem. So update away.

I replaced AVG with MSSE a while back. So far, so good.

WTF is MSSE?

Not really 'bricked' if you can recover it using a boot CD. I understood bricked to mean reduced to an unusable/unrecoverable plastic 'brick'.

And if you have a netbook with no CD/DVD ROM, and no external USB device then the average user (i.e. someone not technical) would class it as bricked. And if that's the only internet access, how are they supposed to find the instructions to fix it, or even download the boot image etc.

Ok, you or I may well be able to rescue it, I have an external DVD device, and multiple computers to download boot images and burn them etc but does everyone?

WTF is MSSE?

Microsoft Security Essentials

And if you have a netbook with no CD/DVD ROM, and no external USB device then the average user (i.e. someone not technical) would class it as bricked. And if that's the only internet access, how are they supposed to find the instructions to fix it, or even download the boot image etc.

Ok, you or I may well be able to rescue it, I have an external DVD device, and multiple computers to download boot images and burn them etc but does everyone?

Microsoft Security Essentials

According to AVG you can restore the system without a CD unless youäve disabled windows system restore:

* Turn on the computer

* Choose to run Windows Startup Repair

* When prompted, use System Restore to restore Windows to the most recent restore point.

See http://www.avg.com.au/news/tech/recent_AVG_update_causes_restart/

Microsoft Security Essentials?

Bloody hell why would anyone rely on anything written by Microsoft to protect their computer against vulnerabilities put there by Microsoft in the first place?

Call it MS growing a conscience?