[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

anyone impacted by this? I don't run mcafee

[driftdiver]

I hate mcafee

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Major outbreak at my office. I had the bad version of the DAT files but my laptop did a pretty good impression of the Energizer bunny and I’ve since rolled back to the last good version.

[Moonman62]

A flawed McAfee antivirus update sent enterprise administrators scrambling today as the new signatures quarantined a crucial Windows system file

There's a joke in there.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Nothing here at work....

[doc11355]

Flawed McAfee update paralyzes corporate PCs

Macs unaffected, of course... but you already knew that.

[cripplecreek]

I switched to Norton about a month ago and so far I like it.

[Red Badger]

I’ve used both McAfee and Norton. They both suck...............

[cynwoody]

I've never used antivirus software, and I've never had a problem. Antivirus is a racket.

All you need is a firewall and a little common sense. Don't run stuff from unknown sources and you will be OK.

[beebuster2000]

anyone impacted by this? I don't run mcafee

Mrs. Mcafee i am guessing

[ConservativeMind]

This is one of the worst AVs to have installed on your system, anyway, and it’s free from several major cable and DSL providers, along with many universities.

Much better choices: Avira (the free one is fine), NOD32, and G.DATA, but most won’t have heard of these. Symantec is the decent fallback now, but for years it was worse than McAfee.

For good comparisons, look here:

http://av-comparatives.org/

[ReneeLynn]

I use AVG. No McAfee.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

McAfee software goes berserk, misidentifies harmless file and locks up PCs around the world

[taxcontrol]

Has not bothered my Linux machine.

[ShadowAce]

[OrangeHoof]

Some of the anti-virus programs are worse than the viruses. They believe their program is more important than anything you might be using your computer for and dominates your processor.

I’ve been happy with AVG and Zone Alarm at home but my work computer gets hijacked all the time by Windows and Norton updates and to hell with you if you can’t sit there and wait on them to do their thing.

[Jeff Chandler]

I don’t run McAfee. I use . . . but that would be telling.

[Buckeye McFrog]

this would be a bad, bad day to be a System Admin for a company that bought McAfee

[Mannaggia l'America]

At home, I switched to the free Microsoft Security Essentials. Yeah, yeah, jokes aside....

McAfee was a resource hog, and I've had to clean up problems on friends' PC's caused by Norton, although I'd pick Norton over McAfee.

[VeniVidiVici]

I run an XP VM within Win7 to get to my corporate net. It’s still chugging along but I did just now backup my VM files so I can restore my VM to this point if need be.

[onedoug]

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