McAfee Anti-Virus Causes Widespread File Damage

[Peter7]

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/03/13/1322215.shtml

[Friday] McAfee released an anti-virus update that contained an anomaly in the DAT file that caused many important files to be deleted from affected systems. At my 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."

Woopsie!

 

[Mux]

Yes, tell me all about it! Took me ages to fix my PC after a virus scan!

 

[supersunbird]

In America their asses will get sued off...

 

[Peter7]

In America their asses will get sued off...

Yep, looks like some of the users are heading that way. They don't get away with things like that over there. Here's a comment:

Can you say “class action lawsuit?” I’m sure that there are going to be plenty of lawyers looking into this and how to make money for themselves.

Hmmm.... need something similar for electricity and internet.

 

[killadoob]

avg is free and the best ive used before

 

[useless]

well i dont have any apps on my PC other than games, thus no worries and pretty happy with McAfee...