An update of Norton Antivirus program cripped millions of Chinese computers over the weekend. Norton only reacted on Monday by apologizing and announcing it would not compensate for any damage that occurred.
The update caused computers running on Microsoft's Chinese XP to delete a few crucial codes making it impossible for the computers to restart again after a prompted reboot. The official news agency Xinhua says that millions of computers have been affected. The crisis started to emerge at Friday noon and Norton remained silent while the Chinese internet was in state of uproar.
The failure cannot be repaired by the average user, but they would need to call in an expert to replace the missing codes from their original set-up disk.
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