That was actually a perfect example of how McAfee is keeping PC's safe from viruses. Proactively shutting down machines before they can be attacked :P
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 3:02 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** At UNT it killed thousands of XP machines that get their dats pushed out by E-Policy Orchestrator as soon as a new dat appears. Machines not on EPO that pull their dats daily were not affected; by the time they pulled, McAfee had removed the offending dat 5958. Sometimes "proactive" isn't better. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Robert Fults Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:43 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** This killed us today... Cleanup will be going on for a bit. And I don't even want to think about how many students are being effected... :S Sincerely, Robert Fults Remedy Dev/Admin Florida International University ________________________________ From: Drake, David [david.dr...@schwab.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM Subject: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/04/broken-mcafee-dat-update-cr ipples-windows-workstations.ars _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
