McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide

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RichieUK

Posted 7/4/2009 3:06 AM

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IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan were brought down when the anti-virus program attack their core system files. In some cases, this caused the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death.

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Posted 7/4/2009 7:47 AM

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Nice work McAfee. I am sure glad I don't use the free software from my ISP. (you guessed it, McAfee) Smile

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Posted 7/4/2009 10:14 AM

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I may be out on my own when I say, that at least it stopped the files which it was told were bad instead of letting a known piece of badware wreak havoc on the systems.

But yeah, some of it's own files, and winvnc? That's just plain weird. Crazy