Update On The Mcafee 5958-gate

[Saint_Michael 3]

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Well it would seem that everyone who has been affected by this are in a world of hurt, especially if hundreds or thousands of computers have been infected by this. To top it off there is no automatic way to fix this and so each computer has to be fixed one at a time and so if your dealing with hundreds if not thousands of computers, it is going to take some time.

 

Odds are I see lawsuits in the near future because of this small update and to top it off, every hacker and their mother are setting up bogus pages for fixes on this problem. So definately stay away from them even if they are coming from legit sites and like I mentioned in my other topic there is only one fix for this problem and that is the update to prevent it from happening. Other then that your on your own and hope that you backed up the system before updating the virus definitions.

 

Correction: There are updates and fixes for this problem and lifehacker has provied a great article on it can be done.

 

http://lifehacker.com/5521266/how-to-fix-the-mcafee-restart-debacle-on-your-machines

 

McAfee Update Link: http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat-center/technology/global-threat-intelligence-technology.aspx

[nirvaman 1]

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Mcafee apologize for the inconvenience this update has caused to their customer , and like you can see here SM ;

especially if hundreds or thousands of computers have been infected by this

they are saying that only less of the half of one percent (0.5 % and not 0.005 % like the news said ) were hit by the corrupted update .

McAfee is aware that a number of customers have incurred a false positive error due to this release. Corporations who kept a feature called "Scan Processes on Enable" in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise disabled, as it is by default, were not affected.

Wow , people who didn't tauched that option were not hit by the update , what a luck for newbies!

Our initial investigation indicates that the error can result in moderate to significant issues on systems running Windows XP Service Pack 3.

Hey , people said that they had their computers restarting over and over , and logicaly this is not moderate issue !

McAfee teams are working with the highest priority to support impacted customers. We have also worked swiftly and released an updated virus definition file (5959) within hours and are providing our customers detailed guidance on how to repair any impacted systems.

So people , go and see what Mcafee's providing for people to fix the problem