My anti-virus software quarantined itself!
This is something odd yet funny and I never thought it would happen.
I recently installed AVG Anti-virus software on my mother’s laptop and found out it was bloated with some sort of Win32.Pr virus that spreads through all exe files it finds in the system. Though it seems not to be harming, I went ahead and told the software to clean all those infected exe files.
Obviously, the AVG Anti-virus software is made up of exe files as well. So as soon as I installed the anti-virus, the aforementioned virus got to them. So while scanning the system, AVG identified its own exe’s as being infected. I said OK, no problem, clean your shit.
But it wasn’t cleaning that it did, it was quarantining (or moving to secure “vault”). And it quarantined its own exe’s (specifically, it’s quarantine module which manages the files in the quarantine). I ended up with 1.6 GB of quarantined exe’s (pretty much all the exe’s in the system) with no way to get them back!
What a lovely situation! I had to format the whole system and install a fresh Windows and the first thing then was to install the AVG software to prevent any similar future situations.
