[quote=meta]Summary: this morning, a McAfee update has quarantined svchost.exe on WinXP SP3 machines worldwide. Some of the machines are stuck in a reboot cycle: they boot, some without network access, then restart after 30 seconds. Engadget originally reported “millions” of computers affected in their title, University of Michigan tech support quoted 800,000. To top it off, McAfee’s support site seems to be modulating between a server timeout and an “Undergoing Maintenance” 404 error.
Update 2: an authoritative source: We have received several reports indicating some issues with McAfee DAT 5958 causing Windows XP SP3 clients to be locked out. It is affecting svchost.exe. […]
Symptoms are: reboot loops and networking down. Trying to roll back to last version is difficult. […]
Only on SP3 so far […] It looks like the svchosts is in quarantine.
Update 1:
At 11 a.m. today, 4/21, McAfee, released an update to its customers that improperly identified a critical component of Windows as having a virus. The majority of McAfee’s customers worldwide, automatically propagates these virus definitions to their client PCs.
Roughly 800,000 PCs randomly distributed across the world automatically received the virus scan update and are now experiencing repetitive reboots. These computers are not functioning at this time and will be offline until the problem is fixed.
McAfee has stopped the virus scan update and is currently working on ways to restore the affected machines. This is challenging due to the nature of the file that is being flagged (improperly) as having the virus.
If your computer is still operational, it is fine and will not experience this problem. NOTE: Your computer does not have a virus, but McAfee VirusScan incorrectly believes it does. There will be more updates as they become available from Microsoft and McAfee. (source)
Hilarity ensures.
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[url]http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/538652366/info-roundup-mcafee-kills-computers-worldwide[/url]
[url]http://community.mcafee.com/thread/24056?tstart=0[/url]
[url]http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8656[/url]
mcafee has some killer security
McAfee saw the true flaw in computer security - the user. Therefore, it has [B]assumed control[/B].
800,000 LOL.
That's pretty funny.
Thank god I didn't go with them...
We have McAfee but this seems to only affect XP.
That's what you get for using McAfee.
The best Anti-Virus is common sense.
In Sweden, Systembolaget, the only stores that sell liqour above 3,5% had to close 28 shops because of this.
Telia, the largest internet and phone company had 15 000 computers offline because of this.
Fuck. Thank god my other computer is running Vista, not XP. My parents decided "hurf durf McAfee"
but, nod32 ftw :kamina:
it will only affect Win XP SP3
I'm surprised that antivirus programs have this much power, and that you can actually quarantine svchost.
I wonder how this will affect the credability of free antivirus apps in the future.
Haha that's funny.
[QUOTE=johnlukeg;21520123]McAfee saw the true flaw in computer security - the user. Therefore, it has [B]assumed control[/B].[/QUOTE]
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
But seriously, this is hilarious, most of the types of people with McAfee won't even know how to fix it with step-by-step instructions. (ie the type of people who just leave it on their new prebuilt computer or buy it because it's the only security program they know)
[QUOTE=ProWaffle;21520275]But seriously, this is hilarious, most of the types of people with McAfee won't even know how to fix it with step-by-step instructions. (ie the type of people who just leave it on their new prebuilt computer or buy it because it's the only security program they know)[/QUOTE]
Like my dad.
DON'T GO ON GOOGLE, IT MAY HAVE A VIRUS. WITHOUT MCAFEE, ONCE YOU OPEN THE INTERNET, VIRUSES WILL COME SWARMING IN.
the best part is, that computer was a pre-built Dell :fuckyou:
That is amazing. Wonder how much damage money wise this has cost.
This scares me haha.
That's a lot of PCs, I don't want this to happen to me. :ohdear:
I'm not with McAfee though, but it shows how easy it can happen.
Oh fuck, my entire school uses McAfee and Windows XP
I was working. then i saw the news on the internet...
then i said that to my colleagues
then 5-10 min later
then like 999999 people started to call our telephones like crazy
(im working at a computer store/repair center)
Computer repair people are about to get a nice sum of money from fixing this shit
[QUOTE=Sgt Pringles;21520401]Computer repair people are about to get a nice sum of money from fixing this shit[/QUOTE]
yes thats right ^^
[QUOTE=johnlukeg;21520123]McAfee saw the true flaw in computer security - the user. Therefore, it has [B]assumed control[/B].[/QUOTE]
[b]This hurts you[/b].
What a coincidence, I visited the dentist the other day and they had problems with their computers, and they were running XP.
dude, so glad i went with norton 2006. safe for another day
I tried to tell em! But did they listen!? Not to crazy ol' Jerry, but dem McAfee's doin just what I said they would! :tinfoil:
A similar thing happened to Avast not too long ago.
Hahaha all my school computers keep restarting.
Haha, my school runs this and uses XP.
This should be entertaining :v:
SkyNet much?
I'm glad I'm using Norton. Oh wait....
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