AVG Update Kills iTunes
Posted by Donster on: 2009-07-27 16:27:49 286
Author: Gareth Halfacree @ Bit-Tech

A glitch in virus definition updates for the popular AVG Anti-Virus software from Grisoft is mis-identifying libraries required by Apple's iTunes software as harmful and disabling the software.

According to an article over on I4U, the update which came out on Friday appears to be mistaking iTunes.dll and iTunesRegistry.dll for a Trojan Horse identified as Small.BOG. This affects all users of iTunes on Windows, with some unfortunate side effects: if AVG is allowed to quarantine or delete the files, iTunes will no longer operate.

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