I haven't seen anything elsewhere, including the Avira Support Forum, about a false/positive in Avira. Are you sure it wasn't one of the three rogues of a similar name, Antivir, Antivir 2010, or Antivir Antivirus? There are other rogues that include include rootkit components, block A/V, Windows Update, System Restore, Safe Mode, Task Manager, and more.
Do you remember the update number and other details? There may be many members and visitors using Avira and it'll help them to be aware something like this happen. Plus somebody may reasearch into this issue, in case there are some rogue updates floating around, as Corrine suggested. If there is an Avira expert on these forums, some more light can be shed, maybe the matter can be reported to the Avira makers.
Another reason I don't use an AV on my own computers. Something like that happening at the wrong time could cost me a fair chunk of cash. Better just to reimage my system on my own time whenever it shows signs of slowing down
If your system is business-critical then running without AV and frequent image backups is an excellent way to waste time and money. It's like transcendental bungee jumping. You experience total freedom and it is fatal.
Oh, and you and BigSeb might like to look at http://www.articlesbase.com/security...e-1990841.html If these reports are correct then the problem is not with an AV product but with malware masquerading as AV.
lol... interesting way to put it. I keep all my personal files on a separate partition, with a backup of those on an external hdd. The image backups are a life saver. I just go right back to about 5 hours after windows was installed, once every 2 weeks at most, and I get a system that does a full restart in 20-23 seconds and never slows down, nor do I lose any progress.
No more vulnerable than a system with a fresh install of windows that hasn't been updated yet. Even less, because the image contains a working copy of the comodo firewall and some of the updates. If malware can get in via windows update, (malware other than some of the windows updates anyway) we're all screwed regardless.
I use Avira Premium Security Suite, I can't imagine that it would wipe out a system .... something went berserk
It may be that corrine has a point too.. either way, those rouge AV programs out there are so difficult to get rid of it's easier and quicker to reinstall windows than to try to remove one.
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