McAfee Security Suite Glitch

[James Silverton]

Hello All!

I have MacAfee and did not notice any problems on my non-networked
machine. The only unusual thing is that they downloaded *two* separate
"updates" on Wednesday that I applied at 3PM and 7PM.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

 

[LD55ZRA]

Hello All!

I have MacAfee and did not notice any problems on my non-networked
machine. The only unusual thing is that they downloaded *two* separate
"updates" on Wednesday that I applied at 3PM and 7PM.

The second update is to fix the glitch caused by the first update on
some systems: They call this glitch as: "Blue screen or DCOM error".

<http://vil.nai.com/vil/5958_false.htm>

hth


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[David H. Lipman]

From: "James Silverton" <[email protected]>

| Hello All!

| I have MacAfee and did not notice any problems on my non-networked
| machine. The only unusual thing is that they downloaded *two* separate
| "updates" on Wednesday that I applied at 3PM and 7PM.

Hi James:

The second update was for DAT 5959 which addressed a False Positive of 'W32/Wecorl.a'
detected in %windir%\system32\svchost.exe by DAT 5958.

 

[James Silverton]

David wrote to James Silverton on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:24:59 -0400:

|> Hello All!

|> I have MacAfee and did not notice any problems on my
|> non-networked machine. The only unusual thing is that they
|> downloaded *two* separate "updates" on Wednesday that I
|> applied at 3PM and 7PM.

Hi James:

The second update was for DAT 5959 which addressed a False
Positive of 'W32/Wecorl.a' detected in
%windir%\system32\svchost.exe by DAT 5958.

Thanks and thanks also to LD55CRA! I had a suspicion that the double
update might be caused by that but, AFAICT, the first one did not screw
up my machine and it seems we a back to one update a day.


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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

 

[James Silverton]

James wrote to David H. Lipman on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:50:26 -0400:

|>> Hello All!

|>> I have MacAfee and did not notice any problems on my
|>> non-networked machine. The only unusual thing is that they
|>> downloaded *two* separate "updates" on Wednesday that I
|>> applied at 3PM and 7PM.

Thanks and thanks also to LD55CRA! I had a suspicion that the double
update might be caused by that but, AFAICT, the first
one did not screw up my machine and it seems we a back to one update a
day.

McAfee seems worried about this problem since I just got a message
asking me to check for updates. As I expected, I was "up to date."

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not