Users Irate Over McAfee Virus Update Screw-up - Small Business Computing

Users Irate Over McAfee Virus Update Screw-up

Apr 22, 2010
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PCWorld: Users Irate Oer McAfee Virus Update Screw-up

The virus definition update resulted in a vital operating system file on XP computers being mistakenly quarantined as virus-infected. Solution: don’t download the update and if you already have, install the recovery patch from McAfee.


“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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