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Showing posts with label Internet Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet Security. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

McAfee Antivirus Program Goes Berserk, Freezes PCs


If you are dissatisfied with McAfee, we recommend ESET Security.


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.

McAfee Inc. confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. It has posted a replacement update for download.


McAfee could not say how many computers were affected, but judging by online postings, the number was at least in the thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands.

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