False positive.
Wednesday April 21, 2010Bad McAfee Update Shutting Down PCs Worldwide
Engadget says that a botched McAfee update is shutting down corporate Win XP computers worldwide. Here’s a snippet from the article:
McAfee is aware that a number of customers have incurred a false positive error due to incorrect malware alerts on Wednesday, April 21. The problem occurs with the 5958 virus definition file (DAT) that was released on April 21 at 2.00 PM GMT+1 (6am Pacific Time). Our initial investigation indicates that the error can result in moderate to significant performance issues on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 3.
Wednesday April 21, 2010Bad McAfee Update Shutting Down PCs Worldwide
Engadget says that a botched McAfee update is shutting down corporate Win XP computers worldwide. Here’s a snippet from the article:
McAfee is aware that a number of customers have incurred a false positive error due to incorrect malware alerts on Wednesday, April 21. The problem occurs with the 5958 virus definition file (DAT) that was released on April 21 at 2.00 PM GMT+1 (6am Pacific Time). Our initial investigation indicates that the error can result in moderate to significant performance issues on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 3.