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Did you experience McAfee Rebot Syndrome?
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2146591" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p style="margin-left: 20px">NEW YORK (AP) - Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.McAfee Inc. confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. It has posted a replacement update for download.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">McAfee could not say how many computers were affected, but judging by online postings, the number was at least in the thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Details are somewhere on the internet but I lost the link. Sorry.</strong>I wasn't. Because I .... well, never mind. </p><p></p><p>H/T: Somebody, deleted email by accident. Sorry. </p><p></p><p> <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/did_you_experience_mcafee_rebo.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/pAWpE2EOMs8" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p></p><p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/pAWpE2EOMs8/did_you_experience_mcafee_rebo.php" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2146591, member: 246624"] [INDENT]NEW YORK (AP) - Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.McAfee Inc. confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. It has posted a replacement update for download. McAfee could not say how many computers were affected, but judging by online postings, the number was at least in the thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands.[/INDENT] [B]Details are somewhere on the internet but I lost the link. Sorry.[/B]I wasn't. Because I .... well, never mind. H/T: Somebody, deleted email by accident. Sorry. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/did_you_experience_mcafee_rebo.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/pAWpE2EOMs8[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/pAWpE2EOMs8/did_you_experience_mcafee_rebo.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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