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NEW YORK – Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100421/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_mcafee_antivirus_flaw
I have a client or two that is seeing this.
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Yeah, this would stink to have to deal with. It could potentially happen to any AV solution and am glad I am not going through it right now.
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i use McAfee on my work computer but havent experienced any problems. There have been a couple of corporate mails about this so were informed. Thanks for the heads up!
BTW: isnt this a real rookie mistake? my guess would be that they have blocked the svchost.exe process? isnt this the first lesson you get at virus prevention?
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Indeed, shouldn't they like.. test.. now updates?
Or at least have a list of 'things you can't quarantine just like that' in their software.
One thing is for certain: it's a bad blow for McAfee. I wouldn't like to be the employee responsible for this.
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it seems that there has come a run on scareware since the McAfee incident:
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/04/22/hackers-exploit-mcafee-false-positive-problem/
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