Stephen’s Scribble Pad

By Stephen 　http://smmeyer.com/scribble/?p=43

There once was a Virus Killer named AVG who lived quietly in his little corner of the screen. In another place there lived Billy*, a spotty faced teenager with a personality disorder. Billy* wrote a virus to kill virus killers called killav. This was Billy’s* great gift to the world. AVG wrote all about Billy* in their database now we all have a virus killer killer killer in the corner of our screens.

Now in their enthusiasm to Kill Billy*, AVG have attacked my bat file used to configure my desktop for the “Ultimate Gaming Experience”. I run this bat file to kill all my “supporting apps” who don’t feature in my offline games, thus saving a few nanoseconds of valuable processor power. Included for temporary termination of course was AVG since the games are offline and no protection was needed. Obviously the virus scanner found the characters “kill” and “avg” in close proximity as in taskkill /f /im avg*xyz*.exe. No “killav” virus / trojan was truly present as there is no killav.exe process running – thank goodness.

Now to get the Virus Vault fixed in AVG Free 8 so I can recover my bat.

*This [deleted]‘s real name and gender (if any) is unknown.