PCWorld: McAfee Virus Update SNAFU: What Happened
The full story isn’t in yet, but PCWorld says there is no question that McAfee simply screwed up. An virus scanner update item that was supposed to block a minor threat wrongly identified a Windows operating system file as being infected.
“Yesterday was a tough day for corporate IT administrators tied to McAfee. In some cases, they faced a full-blown meltdown of their organization’s PCs, as hundreds, in some cases thousands, of Windows XP computers went down after receiving a faulty antivirus update from the security firm.
The whole story’s not clear at this point, but there are some things that we know — and a lot that we don’t — about the latest debacle from a vendor that is supposed to protect, not prang, PCs.”
