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ESET has NOD32 anti-virus update pains

ESET has NOD32 anti-virus update pains

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A botched update to the ESET NOD32 Virus Signature Database Update 5418 today is causing mayhem on thousands of Windows XP SP3 machines and Windows Servers alike. The problem is still ongoing and rears its ugly head when the Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 or 2008 R2 system gets pushed today's update definition 5418. Windows 7 seems unaffected. After a while your PC will throw a memory read error to which you are invited to agree with or debug. Shortly after this...



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