[LINK] McAfee update problem

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Sat Apr 24 07:46:54 AEST 2010


Did this hit in Australia, too?
Jan


>http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/04/massive-manual-pc-cleanup-triggered-by-mcafee-error/1
>
>... thousands of Windows PCs in large organizations around the globe 
>were thrown into fits of rebooting yesterday after antivirus giant 
>McAfee distributed a routine update carrying an egregious error.
>
>Now each one of those computers will have to be manually cleaned. 
>Affected organizations can expect to expend a minimum of 30 minutes 
>of manual labor per PC to get each one back into working order, says 
>Steve Shillingford, CEO of tech forensics firm Solera Networks.
>
>barak rosenshine: on the McAfee fiasco yesterday
>
>We were part of this, and we were told by email to shut down our 
>computers if we were using Windown XP.   Three hours later those who 
>had received shutdown warnings were told *by email* (the Ed: 
>nice...how did you get it?) how to get back online.  The rest of us 
>were told we could sign on without any problem.  I went to my 
>library to get the message.
>(oh!--the Ed)
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/21/business/AP-US-TEC-McAfee-Antivirus-Flaw.html?_r=1 
>


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