Friday, April 23, 2010

McAfee Antivirus Update causes Windows XP to crash

McAfee Antivirus update is said to be the caused of computer break down particularly those Windows XP PC. The news was reported last Wednesday and is now spreading all over the net.

It was reported that thousands of computer running Windows XP crashes or repeatedly rebooting after McAfee security update was installed.


According to the report also that the security update from the anti-virus software vendor had wrongly labeled part of the Windows OS as a virus, which resulted in Windows XP device chaos.


The McAfee 5958 update mistakenly identified the Windows svchost.exe file as a worm that sought to replace an existing svchost file with its own version in order to take over a machine

Windows XP machines operating service pack 3 were the hardest hit by the malfunction.

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  1. Alastair RevellApril 23, 2010 at 4:44 AM

    I think it will take a lot of time for McAfee to recover from the damage to their reputation.

    You might be interested in my commentary on the McAfee issues, as well as the multiple posts by colleagues on The Consultancy Blog as events unfolded.


    Alastair Revell
    Managing Consultant
    Revell Research Systems

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