Wow, I remember when this happened last year with McAfee, but worse.
Still, it definitely caused problems at home. I almost wiped my machine clean due to the constant message that every website was bad (except Avast's of course). Luckily, I had a virtual machine installed on my PC and was able to boot up into that to get another AV program to then do a full system scan. It showed everything was fine. That's when I came here and saw the thread. That is what I suspected when the other AV didn't find anything at all.
I'm still baffled as to how this can slip through the cracks. It really caused issues where we couldn't use our computer and our daughters both needed it to do homework, but we didn't want them hooking up their USB sticks in case there really was a virus.
I understand mistakes happen, but how could something like this slip through? The same thing happened with McAfee last year that made computers useless and it was an official patch that apparently didn't make it through testing.
I really hope something like this doesn't happen again. Luckily, this wasn't as bad as McAfee's snafu, but it possibly caused a lot of people to reimage their machines. I'm glad I held off because it seemed suspicious that EVERY web site was bad except Avast.