An imperfection of update for softwares antivirus of the company of Trend security Micron caused the slowness or interruption in the operations of some computers around of the world, confirmed the company in this Monday (25/04). For return of 2h of this monday in Tokyo, the Trend Micron had received about 311,9 a thousand telephonic calls users in Japan declaring that its PCs had been afectados for a deficient filing-cabinet with information on virus and plagues. The filing-cabinet of data was placed online between 7h30 and 9h02 (hourly Japanese) of Saturday (23/04). A problem in the archive 2,594,00 OPR - Official Pattern Release - created a canal that sucked all or almost all the energy of a PC for the data processing. The company that uses Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), of the Microsoft, and OfficeScan software had been afectadas, of the Trend, and also domestic users with the SP2 and software PC-cillin InterNet Security 2005 Virus Buster. "the problem was caused by our proper laboratories of virus in Manila [ Phillipino ] during the checagem process, when part of the test was not executed", the spokesman of the Trend Naomi Ikenomoto declared. The defective filing-cabinet was substituted to 10h51, schedule of Japan. Version 2.596.00 of the OPR will finish automatically with the problem in the PCs that to make download, according to company. The majority of the afectados computers is located in Japan, even so the Trend has received some reports from problems in Australia, Middle East and Europe. Customers of the United States had also had problems. The Trend Micron still is to evaluate will become an announcement on measures that goes to apply to compensate the afected users.

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