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McAfail
Posted: April 21, 2010, 4:22 pm
by Animalor
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/mcaf ... p-machines
Long story short, today's defs contained a faise positive that started putting svchost.exe on windows XP machines in the Quarantine. Doing this bricked what will probably amount to over a million machines worldwide.
The only fix currently is apparently to sneakernet to the machines, boot into safe mode, restore the file from quarantine and disabling McAfee.
I really hope this kills them for good.
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 21, 2010, 4:31 pm
by Soreali
They did this last year too (might have been 08 though)
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 21, 2010, 4:54 pm
by Canelek
Awesome!
Sometimes folks need a gentle nudge to start using non-shitty AV clients.
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 21, 2010, 4:55 pm
by Aslanna
Mistakes happen. Nobody is perfect!
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 23, 2010, 6:34 pm
by Soreali
Aslanna wrote:Mistakes happen. Nobody is perfect!
This mistake has been haunting me and my co-workers for the last few days.
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 23, 2010, 8:17 pm
by Animalor
We just moved from Symantec to Trend recently. McAfee was not even considered because of my past, poor experiences with the consumer version.
Trend is a nice product with a really good management system. I wish it was a bit more granular in it's configuration but it's good overall.
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 25, 2010, 9:19 am
by Aabidano
We don't auto-update direct from McAfee, or anyone else for that matter. There's a short delay in place so we can at least sanity check what they're sending us.
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 25, 2010, 9:49 pm
by miir
Aabidano wrote:We don't auto-update direct from McAfee, or anyone else for that matter. There's a short delay in place so we can at least sanity check what they're sending us.
Most enterprise environments tend to do that.
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 26, 2010, 10:45 am
by Bubba Grizz
I use McAfee for my home computers and never have had a problem. Right now though I am worried about restarting the only machine I have with XP SP3.
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 26, 2010, 11:24 am
by miir
Bubba Grizz wrote:I use McAfee for my home computers and never have had a problem. Right now though I am worried about restarting the only machine I have with XP SP3.
Another reason to upgrade to Windows 7!
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 26, 2010, 11:48 am
by Aslanna
I'm not hating Windows 7 as much as I used to. Mainly since I have it looking pretty much like XP. With the exception of the horrendous Windows Explorer which I have yet to find a suitable (free) replacement for although CubicExplorer isn't bad. I have no clue why nobody uses Alt-F>M to rename files though. F2 is too much work!
Re: McAfail
Posted: April 26, 2010, 1:01 pm
by Winnow
Aslanna wrote:I have no clue why nobody uses Alt-F>M to rename files though. F2 is too much work!
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA014830 ... /FlexRena/
Flexible Renamer is the best free file renaming program out there. Must have!