View Full Version : McAfee update cause widespread havoc..
yearoftherat
04-22-2010, 02:39 AM
McAfee's popular antivirus software failed spectacularly on Wednesday, causing tens of thousands of Windows XP computers to crash or repeatedly reboot.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20003074-83.html
Thankfully I own a Mac...:chuckle
SonicBoy
04-22-2010, 07:51 AM
Yikes! Wonder who go let go over that incident? This is not the first time for them either.
Cardinal Fang
04-22-2010, 09:28 AM
Thankfully I'm on AVG.
SilentJay
04-22-2010, 10:04 AM
Thankfully it didn't hit here. We pre-screen our updates before pushing them to the 3500+ machines here :P
m_bisson
04-22-2010, 01:51 PM
yay kaspersky
mazdabetty
04-22-2010, 01:53 PM
Thankfully I'm on AVG.
yesssss AVG free ftw!!! lol
Unoriginalusername
04-22-2010, 01:57 PM
McAfee's popular antivirus software failed spectacularly on Wednesday, causing tens of thousands of Windows XP computers to crash or repeatedly reboot.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20003074-83.html
Thankfully I own a Mac...:chuckle
X2 on the mac
ElegantGremlin
04-22-2010, 02:12 PM
I guess McAfee is just finally recognizing Windows for the virus it is.
Dave_The_BMXER
04-22-2010, 02:40 PM
avg here too.
poke65
04-22-2010, 05:27 PM
avast here the few times i boot into windows
most of the time on linux so no worries
PCLoadLetter
04-22-2010, 07:21 PM
Avast home edition
http://rbeale.com/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/custom/images/Borat-Gives-Thesis-Theme-2-Thumbs-Up.jpg
ST3ALTH
04-22-2010, 07:24 PM
MAC for the win! Its funny i am a technician and i have a customers laptop here that is all messed up and it is running mcafee! hmmmm i wonder what it is lmao
Gizzmo_jr
04-22-2010, 08:43 PM
Hope my program can catch it
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8916/edgark.jpg
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