This evening's Slashdot offering provides the following: http://brianseekford.com/index.php/2010/04/21/how-to-fix-the-mcafee-svchost-crash-from-the-virus-definition-update/
http://bit.ly/cbg4rm Fred Holmes At 06:45 PM 4/21/2010, tjpa wrote: >http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hADm2LTOJUNBSPziYG0KGH7jTUVwD9F7M9HG1 > >I spent several hours troubleshooting this one before the news got out. > >Looks like it blew away a good chunk of the Registry. The computer had >no Task Bar or Start button. Desktop icons could not be moved. The >network connection and WiFi were gone. Many Control Panels displayed >just an empty window. The McAfee application would not launch. System >Restore says "System Restore is unable to protect your computer" and >then exits. > >Worse of all, it blew away the Administrator account. I had the client >running in a limited-rights account, which she was able to log into, >but almost everything I might want to use to fix things can't be run >from the limited-rights account. When I try to log into the >Administrator account the screen turns blue briefly and then returns >to the login screen. > >Arrgh! > >Any suggestions about how to get this sick puppy back together? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
