{"id":4580,"date":"2011-09-21T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2011-11-17T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:17:11","slug":"probably-not-really-anti-semetic-code-in-avg-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/software\/windows-os\/probably-not-really-anti-semetic-code-in-avg-software\/","title":{"rendered":"(Probably Not Really) Anti-Semetic Code In AVG Software"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>In what is beginning to feel like something of a running joke<\/a>, anti-virus company AVG apparently made an app for Windows that apparently does nothing but display ads, possibly track your location <\/a>and ban the word “\u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea,” <\/a>which is Hebrew for Hebrew.<\/p>\n The app in question, AVG Security Suite, is supposed to be a virus scanner for the Windows 7 Phone platform. This brings up the obvious question, who would bother designing viruses for Windows 7 Phone? The answer, of course, is no one, which is why the app had a virtually non-existent search parameter.<\/p>\n Virtually non-existent, because website Within Windows captured a dump of the definitions database<\/a> and found it contained only one word — \u05e2\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05ea.<\/p>\n Since then, Microsoft has pulled the app from the market, although more because it can apparently track your location<\/a>, supposedly so you can find a stolen phone<\/a> (although that’s apparently something built into the phone itself) and not because of any weirdness with the search patterns.<\/p>\n