McAfee false-positive
July 6th, 2009
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IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan were brought down when the anti-virus program attacked their core system files. In some cases, this caused the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death.
Details are still coming in, but forums here and here show that it’s affecting McAfee customers in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere.
After the latest McAfee update, in so many users computer the anti-virus program identified winvnc.exe and several other legitimate files as malware and attempted to quarantine them. With several core system files out of commission, the machine was rendered an expensive paperweight.
