Good thing Mcafee doesn't have liability, via contract, for this mess....
McAfee released an anti-virus update [a href="vny!://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2802"]that contained an anomaly in the DAT file [/a]that causes many important files to be deleted from affected systems. At one company, tens of thousands of files were deleted from dozens of servers and around 2000 user machines.
Affected applications included MS Office, and products from IBM (Rational), GreenHills, MS Office, Ansys, Adobe, Autocad, Hyperion, Win MPM, MS Shared, MapInfo, Macromedia, MySQL, CA, Cold Fusion, ATI, FTP Voyager, Visual Studio, PTC, ADS, FEMAP, STAT, Rational. Apparently the DAT file targeted mostly, if not exclusively, DLLs and EXE files.
Already, the SANS Internet Storm Center received a number of [a href="vny!://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1184"]notes from distressed sysadmins[/a] reporting thousands of deleted or quarantined files. McAfee in response released [a href="vny!://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_138884.htm"]advice to restore the files[/a]. Users who configured McAfee to delete files are left with using backups or System restore.
Well, from my experience with McAfee, I will sum it up in a emoticon below...
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CK wrote:
Well, from my experience with McAfee, I will sum it up in a emoticon below...
100% agreed. McAfee is a piece of garbage. I never use it because it's so bad.
Well, you know my experience I had recently. A buddy re formatted the computer and all is well. Just need to load my programs back on. I am using PC Cillin' now for protection, among other free anti-spywares that you mentioned. Thank you amigo!