Meltdown of XP PCs

General Computing Microsoft Windows
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Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs

At 6AM today, McAfee released an update to its antivirus definitions for corporate customers that had a slight problem. And by “slight problem,” I mean the kind that renders a PC useless until tech support shows up to repair the damage manually. As I commented on Twitter earlier today, I’m not sure any virus writer has ever developed a piece of malware that shut down as many machines as quickly as McAfee did today.

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Yeah, hit us in Uni here yesterday about 1600GMT. Thankfully mines wasn’t killed but they now have an automatic fix in place.

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That’s worrying as I’m monitoring McAfee AV upgrades for a client, on Win2K machines though. Any idea what version this is?

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snigger

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Corporate only from what I heard.

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There where sketchy reports that home users had been hit… but that all died down pretty quick… it is still hell of a balls up :confused:

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M$ must be laughing their socks off. If it happens to them with their AV at least they can argue you get what you pay for?

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Obviously lucky at work - had no effect for us and we have the Corp version.