McAfee snafu

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McAfee snafu

« on: April 22, 2010, 02:53:19 PM »

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/042110-mcafee-apology.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2010-04-22

A statement issued by McAfee says that (for a small percentage of their users) their recent update misidentified a legitimate SP function as a virus and killed it. This caused computers to be locked in a reboot loop. Please stand by. We apologize for the forced inconvenience. Just thank ~~McAfee~~ God you don't have any viruses ~~so far as we know~~

Never liked them. I prefer Avast. It's free, lightweight and does a great job


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Re: McAfee snafu

« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2010, 03:30:28 PM »

I read that the "small percentage of users" was pretty large number - the fallout being in the millions of machines. Whooboy, someone got fired.


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Re: McAfee snafu

« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2010, 07:13:22 PM »

Quote from: perkiset on April 22, 2010, 03:30:28 PM

I read that the "small percentage of users" was pretty large number - the fallout being in the millions of machines. Whooboy, someone got fired.

Update.

McAfee exec adds new apology, sketchy explanation for update debacle: McAfee apologized late Thursday for crippling thousands of customers' computer with a flawed update the day before.