Monday, April 26, 2010

McAfee Apologizes for Win XP Antivirus Meltdown

Company speaks after the DAT false-positive fiasco for business customers.

On Wednesday, security software provider McAfee pushed out an updated DAT file that deleted the svchost.exe file, which thentriggers a false-positive in McAfee itself. This affected tens of thousands of business computers.
McAfee quickly released a fix, which can be now found here. Barry McPherson, executive vice president of support and customer service, issued the apology on behalf of McAfee in a new company blog post.