Oops! McAfee brings down computers

[HeyBub]

"IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers
and PCs running McAfee VirusScan were brought down when the anti-virus
program attacked their core system files. In some cases, this caused the
machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/mcafee_false_positive_glitch/

Who knew "winvnc.exe" was a virus?

 

[milt]

"IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers
and PCs running McAfee VirusScan were brought down when the anti-virus
program attacked their core system files. In some cases, this caused the
machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/mcafee_false_positive_glitch/

Who knew "winvnc.exe" was a virus?

Why am I not surprised?

 

[SC Tom]

Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite picked up WinVnc a while back as a virus,
but all I had to do was add it to the exception list until the next DAT came
out. Kaspersky picked it up as a virus over a year ago. They finally fixed
it, but it took about 2-3months.

SC Tom

 

[Randem]

McAfee was bringing down compuers WITHOUT that virus...

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[db]

crapping out with
mccrapafee is not
uncommon.


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[Randem]

more info http://www.randem.com/ieattacks.html

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