I got the same thing bro. I had 6 emails and 3 phone calls in less than 30 minutes. Avast works pretty well in stopping things before/as they get on a computer, so you can be pretty confident that it wasn’t a virus that got onto one system and started spreading 50 billion others.

I understand that you’re a bit perturbed that you couldn’t find any information about it except for the blog, but as in my Windows 7 SP1 example, I found little information on that as well.

Fortunately, Avast was able to fix their mistake in 45 minutes, whereas Microsoft still has yet to figure out exactly why their service pack crippled countless windows 7 and server 2008 systems, as well as why it removed all previous system restore points, giving the customers little chance of repairing their systems without some technical knowledge.

They eventually put out a kb article after one of the in-house devs reported the problem and a possible fix on one of the MS tech blogs, but it’s not like they emailed everyone that has a windows 7 / 2008 system and warned them when they first found out about it…

Avast simply can’t send out 130+ million emails to warn their users.

I can definitely see a need to have a warning on their website and hope they do so in the future.

Anyway, let’s just say avast did own up to their mistake (the blog post), and agree that Avast should make some changes in the future (hopefully it doesn’t happen again though) like posting important information on their home page and a warning in the forum. They did have a problem with a false-positive last year that was much more devastating, and they had a big warning right on top of the forum.

I would have liked to see that again this time.

Well, Avast, you live and learn. If you’re aware of a mistake that could cause a bunch of problems, try to get the information out as quickly as you can, and to as many outlets as you can. If we know about the problem, we can use that info to help others before they royally screw something up and start throwing blames at you for doing so…
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