Norton Antivirus Crashes China

Most of you reading this may not believe me, but I thought I’d have to do some journalism and report something that’s been omitted from Western news sites.

China Has Been Oddly Silent
I was on the phone to my Chinese girlfriend yesterday (she lives with her mother in Paris), who told me that her father had called from Beijing to explain why her Mother’s computer in Paris had crashed. It turns out that an update to Norton Antivirus managed to wipe key system files from all Windows computers in Chinese! This has affected about 80% of the computers in China, and was only recoverable by those with a Windows install disk, which is not many due to the amount of computers bought with and OEM version of Windows.

He father also said that the disaster had caused a wave of suicides amongst businessmen, reported all over the Chinese news agencies, presumably resulting from a loss of money in stocks.

I still haven’t been able to find anything about this on Google, and her they can’t check the Chinese sites on her mother’s computer as they don’t have a Windows disk to reinstall the system, her own Windows computer cannot be used to type in Chinese.