Antivirus software deletes itself

The author of this article doesn't know what the term "bricking" means. If you delete key Windows files you will not "brick" a PC.<p>"Bricking" is the process of turning a physical piece of hardware into a device as useful as a "brick" (thus its name). It was coined to describe what happens when you try and flash a phone and it is unrecoverably damaged.

This was brought on by an unforeseen natural evolution of antivirus software.<p>1. The software becomes sentient, learns to define, recognize and delete viruses on it's own.<p>2. The software realizes that by every definition it is itself a virus and must delete itself. :)

Would this then be the first digital autoimmune disease? ;)

65+ pages of sysadmin angst:<p><a href="http://community.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Endpoint-Protection/Is-any-one-else-seing-this-alert-Shh-Updater-B-False-positives/td-p/29723" rel="nofollow">http://community.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Endpoint-Protection/Is...</a>

Nice, taste your own medicine AV companies!<p>Recent movement (last couple of years) by AV companies blocking everything which leads legitimate small businesses to take the stupid whitelisting route via AV companies or pointless customer calls to explain it's a false positive (and even when customer is convinced it's still not good enough because corporate doesn't allow them to exclude some binaries or disable AV).

My employer got hit by this yesterday so I'm seeing occasional Sophos notifications. Sophos sucks just as badly as any other AV program: it slows down my laptop, shortens battery life, and has an uncanny knack for deciding to run a full scan right when I'm in the middle of something important.

Sophos has been around for a very long time. I don't understand how an anti-virus company could not take action to prevent this time of thing from happening.<p>1) Why don't they have a secure hash of each of the files and add that to a whitelist of files never to delete?<p>2) "You want to ensure your secondary option (when cleanup is not available or does not work) to be set to 'deny access' and not delete or move." Is this not the default configuration?

First case of autoimmune disease in the digital world?

Finally an antivirus product I can approve of.

Finally an antivirus that really works. Next in series: antivirus shows message "please install linux and get rid of me".

What is life without death?

I'm sorry...but I can't control my laughter...hahahahahaahahaha...seriously...best news I've ever read this week!

Staging fail?

it should delete Windows first

Like this company <a href="http://socialav.com/" rel="nofollow">http://socialav.com/</a> crowd sourcing is the <i>future</i>. Good talents are really hard in antivirus industries.