McAfee DAT 5958 pattern kills XP SP3 machines

[gregmcc]

Thought this would be serious enough to cross post from the Network & Security thread.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...-5958-pattern-kills-XP-SP3-machines&p=3833533



If your running McAfee VirusScan you had better stop pull/replication tasks. Pattern 5958 picks up svchost.exe as a false positive and kills your machine.

From the posts I've read this is turning out to be a disaster for a lot of places!

For more info:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8656

 

[bekdik]

McAfee program goes berserk, reboots PCs

Not sure if this is the same thing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36694120/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

NEW YORK - Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.

McAfee confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. It has posted a replacement update for download.

McAfee could not say how many computers were affected, but judging by online postings, the number was at least in the thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands.