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Just popping on here to help out with anyone that may be having problems with their iTunes and AVG installs. For those that use only one or neither, you can just let your eyes go unfocused and hum the 1812 Overture for a while.

So, I was scared shitless yesterday when I went to fire up iTunes and my antivirus program, AVG, began screaming at me (not literally) that there were trojan horses oozing out of that directory (again, not literally--although some viruses do cause slight to major oozage). I must have been on one of the first waves of fear-inspired WTF, because googling brought up really only one result; a site I'm unfamiliar with telling me that nothing is wrong here, dude. Needless to say, I was skeptical.

Now that time has passed and people's internets have most likely been hammered by frantic music and antivirus fans, there has been a partial explanation and temporary fix. I suspect Bill Gates has been consulted on damage control, because it seems like his modus operandi. To save time, even though I've been admittedly rather long-winded about this, this guy seems to have summed it up quite effectively and efficiently.

One thing I'll address that I have yet to see; what happens if you're using the free version of AVG, which usually defaults to daily scanning and won't allow skipping directories? This morning, I awoke to find all those pesky files now ignored by the "fix" mentioned above sitting in my virus vault. Well, I threw caution to the wind in the name of science and came up with some yawn-inspiring results. Here's what I did; delete the entries in your virus vault and restart iTunes--Window$ (XP in this case) will just spend a minute reconfiguring iTunes and then start it normally.

Disclaimer: if you follow my advice and it borks your computer, I accept no blame. But I will feel bad. That's the best I can do.

They're more scared of you then you are of them.

I know I logged in to say something way awesome, but vodka has erased whatever it was. Instead, I'll post this video for Adidas (believe it or not) that I found a couple years ago but just popped up in my memory. It's a bit creepy, but I still like it. I think it's the song that gets me.