Wrong Update, Thousands of Computers Paralyzed by McAfee Anti-Virus

Instead of protecting, McAfee anti-virus software even paralyzed many computers across the world. An update McAfeee make a mess because it makes the Windows XP operating system crash or reboot repeatedly.

Update it seemed wrong to recognize an important Windows system files as viruses. As a result, disruption of the system inevitable.

Quoted by Xinhua on Thursday (22/04/2010), the update time is approximately 4 hours for corporate customers. But when an error is detected, the McAfee, blocking the availability of the update.

Many institutions reported errors affected by this update. Institute Internet Storm Center, which monitors the problem in the web claiming to receive reports disrupted thousands of computers and various organizations have to stop their activities.

McAfee also cast an apology to customers affected by the effect. They directly provide new uupate to fix the computer. However, they assess the impact of this incident is not too significant.

“We believe this incident is only the impact on the less than 1 percent of all our global customer base,” says McAfee