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Oh, this should be fun.
So, merely downloading the latest virus definitions from McAfee apparently contained some sort of malicious code that caused Windows PC’s to go into an “autoimmune” attack, basically?
Makes me glad I’m a Mac guy. Not much harm can come, unless I’m dumb enough to give user authorization.
Never used McLafee. Removed it from all my computers the first time I booted them up.
McAfee is just a big virus.
I hope this doesn’t happen to me because that would really su(*!@!@#$%^&*()[NO CARRIER]
Yeah & the gov wants all of my personal information to put on their national database. Sounds like a good idea. I mean computers are so much smarter than people.
AVG Free anti-virus did this same thing to my pc some months back. I had to delete the program and all files, and get a completely different anti-virus program to protect myself.
Is this like Nanny MacPhee???
hehehe!
A spokesperson from McAfee had this to say: “Oooops”
BTTT.
I hate MacAfee. I had their service until they kept billing my credit card account multiple times without my authorization. I had to go through hell to get the charges reversed and get them to stop. That company and their customer support are BAD NEWS. Beware!
Fortunately, my brother is a former “Geek Squad” techi, and advised me to ditch the burdensome ap, largely because it’s a performance hog, running 17 aps at a time.
So this machine has never seen McAfee
Yeow!
I’ve never had a problem with McAfee. In fact, it’s nailed a few bad guys for me from time to time. I don’t enable automatic updates - - I just update manually once or twice a week. Only takes a couple of minutes.
Oh, how I hate McAfee. The geniuses in my employer’s IT department settled on McAfee for some unknown reason, and it’s made the PCs in our development group almost unusable. CPU and memory usage spike to 100% on a regular basis, completely freezing up the machines and crashing running programs. The culprit is always some process from the McAfee security suite. Disabling McAfee is out of the question since IT instantly complains. Combine McAfee with a lousy IT department and you have the ingredients for disaster.
My wife got a rootkit virus Thursday. AVG, SuperAntiSpyware, nor Avast touched it. Avast was even reporting its own files as infected.
I downloaded McAfee free from ComCast and it was able to remove the virus. I still spent the better part of a day getting the computer running correctly again.
I don’t like anti-virus and other resource hogging programs, but the wife hasn’t complained about slowness with McAfee installed (and believe me she wouldn’t hesitate to complain if it bothered her). And her machine is not very fast to begin with.
I am working at a high security site and they are using Symantec. The operation of the anti-virus there is nearly totally transparent to the user, I can’t say I’ve ever noticed any slowness other than the machines are slow to boot (and that is likely the fault of the several scripts they run in the name of security).
I only use it because its free with comcast.
I wonder if this is what was up.