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McAfee AV Patch Leaves Some Computers Unbootable

Posted 06/10/09 at 09:00:44 AM  by Paul Lilly

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Oopsy-daisy! According to complaints on McAfee's message board, a mandatory service pack for the company's antivirus VSE 8.7 software has left some machines unbootable. The update, which was issued on May 27 and later pulled on June 2, was intended to squash minor security bugs, but also inadvertently flagged some Windows system files as malware.

"McAfee removed Patch 1 for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i from its download servers out of precaution after a potential issue with the update was discovered," McAfee said in a statement. "A very small number of customers reported trouble with the patch on a limited number of computers."

McAfee went on to say that it's working on identifying the cause of the false positives and, once resolved, will repost the mandatory update.

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TAGS: windows, Software, Security, patch, antivirus, AV, Mcafee
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avatarSame old same old!

Submitted by Mr.Pooney on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 2:06pm

AVG did the same thing!

And who's gonna fix the non bootable pc?

same like me! i sell avg in my shop and give a free 1 year Licence

with every system purchace. so when avg pulled the same thing awhile back i had

over 200 non bootable towers to go through with the special 10min bootable CD....

F**KING HECK! that is alot of free time to give away cause of some one else's F**K Up 

 

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avatarthe false positives and,

Submitted by nekollx on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 8:06am

the false positives and, once resolved, will repost the mandatory update.

 

But what about the unbootable systems McAfee? How they gonna fix those?

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avatarGG MCAFEE....GEEE GEEE  

Submitted by DBsantos77 on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 5:51am

GG MCAFEE....GEEE GEEE

 

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avatarSweet, when are those

Submitted by Tekzel on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 5:16am

Sweet, when are those jackoffs going to stop trying to make anti-malware software?  They have been a big steaming pile of crap for at least a decade.  Fail personified.

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