The Virus or the Anti-Virus

I hate McAFee back from an incident about six years ago. Absolutely ineffectual against blocking threats at the time. So I pounce with particular glee upon this news article.

McAfee update causes havoc

While excel.exe was the most affected, the list of exe files released by McAfee as having affected by the update was of seven pages. Users complained that the anti-virus programme tried to remove files including Perl, Sysinternals' PcTools suite, various Oracle binaries, Dell OpenManage, Google Toolbar installer and programs that run Macromedia Flash Player, Sun's Java application and Adobe update manager.

The system either deleted the concerned files or removed them into a separate folder as per settings decided by the user. McAfee claimed the files were moved or deleted during scheduled or manual scans and not during background scanning

Of course the patch was patched.

These programs apparently translated into clear system threats to the coding population at McAfee. They were assimilated.

ha.