beware McAffee update
 

seems the recent signature update detects many legitimate files as infected

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03...alse_positive/

- glad I no longer use it ;)

Re: beware McAffee update
 

It was on their site for less than 5 hours, if you had downloaded it you would have known by now. The update has since been replaced

Re: beware McAffee update
 

damn - I was hoping the whole site would send me large quantities of money for saving them from pc meltdown ;) :D

Re: beware McAffee update
 

Yep this is true, but McAfee release their signatures at roughly the same time every day, so although it was only on for 5 hours, lots of customers would have been expecting the DAT file, and it would have been automatically downloaded and pushed out within that timeframe. Also, it took McAfee a relatively long time to produce a fix to un-quarantine the files, which was only released on Monday.

Re: beware McAffee update
 

Well, Linux users have always said that Windows was the biggest virus of all and Mcaffee, for 5 hours at least, decided they were right and classed most of the OS as a trojan. :rofl: