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Flawed McAfee update paralyzes corporate PCs
Network World ^
| 4/21
| Gregg Keizer
Posted on 04/21/2010 1:29:45 PM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
A flawed McAfee antivirus update sent enterprise administrators scrambling today as the new signatures quarantined a crucial Windows system file, crippling an unknown number of Windows XP computers, according to messages on the company's support forum.
The forum has since gone offline.
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KEYWORDS: mcafee; microsofttax
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anyone impacted by this? I don't run mcafee
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:30:42 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Major outbreak at my office. I had the bad version of the DAT files but my laptop did a pretty good impression of the Energizer bunny and I’ve since rolled back to the last good version.
To: driftdiver
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:32:10 PM PDT
by
nagdt
("speak the truth but leave immediately afterward")
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
A flawed McAfee antivirus update sent enterprise administrators scrambling today as the new signatures quarantined a crucial Windows system file There's a joke in there.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:32:19 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: driftdiver
I have mcAfee and haven’t run today’s updates...hummmm...
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:32:28 PM PDT
by
EBH
(Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
To: YankeeMagic
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:33:01 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Obama's favorite carol: Hark The Herald Angels Sing About Me)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:33:21 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Flawed McAfee update paralyzes corporate PCsMacs unaffected, of course... but you already knew that.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:33:42 PM PDT
by
doc11355
To: EBH
I have McAfee and HAVE run the update. I wonder if this computer will boot. Let me rephrase, the company where I work has McAfee.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:34:01 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Obama's favorite carol: Hark The Herald Angels Sing About Me)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
I switched to Norton about a month ago and so far I like it.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:34:32 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Ingtar
And I’ve never had an issue with Norton on my home system.....
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:34:34 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR.......Monthly Donors Wanted.)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
I’ve used both McAfee and Norton. They both suck...............
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:34:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
I've never used antivirus software, and I've never had a problem. Antivirus is a racket.
All you need is a firewall and a little common sense. Don't run stuff from unknown sources and you will be OK.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:34:45 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: doc11355
There is McAfee for Mac. I believe there’s a Norton for Mac as well.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:35:11 PM PDT
by
benjibrowder
(For Neda. May God bless those fighting for freedom.)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
anyone impacted by this? I don't run mcafeeMrs. Mcafee i am guessing
To: EBH
I don’t know why but I think I would wait until tomorrow.
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:35:26 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
This is one of the worst AVs to have installed on your system, anyway, and it’s free from several major cable and DSL providers, along with many universities.
Much better choices: Avira (the free one is fine), NOD32, and G.DATA, but most won’t have heard of these. Symantec is the decent fallback now, but for years it was worse than McAfee.
For good comparisons, look here:
http://av-comparatives.org/
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:35:40 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
To: Battle Hymn of the Republic
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posted on
04/21/2010 1:35:49 PM PDT
by
ReneeLynn
(Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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