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Legions of Chinese PCs succumbed to the "blue screen of death" this weekend, thanks to a flawed security software update. |
Having trouble reaching colleagues in China this week? If they use Windows PCs, this might be why: An update to the popular
Norton Antivirus program crippled millions of Chinese computers over the weekend.
The update caused computers running the Chinese edition of Microsoft's XP operating system to delete a few crucial codes, making it impossible for the computers to restart again after a prompted reboot. The official news agency Xinhua says that millions of computers have been affected.
The crisis started to emerge at Friday noon and Norton remained silent while the Chinese Internet was in state of uproar. Norton only reacted on Monday by apologizing. The company also announced would not compensate for any damage that occurred.
This failure cannot be repaired by average users. Instead, they need to call in an expert to replace the missing codes from their original setup disk.
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