McAfee update exterminates Excel

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Such problems with security software are called false positives and they happen occasionally. McAfee typically has to do an emergency release of a virus definition file once every three months because of a false positive issue, Telafici said. "This is our once for the quarter I think," he said.

However, this time around it was a particularly big goof, because the company faulted Excel, Telafici admitted. "Usually, it is either custom applications or applications that did not exist at the time we wrote the signature file," he said.


McAfee has been able to pinpoint the cause of the problem and hopes it can avoid it in the future, Telafici said.

So ... what's new then.

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McCrapie IS a virus ...