Massive virus, yay!

[Caliga]

Our whole company's network is shut down, as well as Kentucky gov't computers including police cruiser systems and the 911 system.

Kentucky: FAIL.

[Malthus]

Hey, I clicked on this thread and failed to get a massive virus. 

[Eddie Teach]

Wow, that was annoying. I apologize. I think we should disable the scrolling text to avoid future recurrences.

[Caliga]

Malthus: FAIL.

[The Brain]

They have Kentucky for computers now?

[Caliga]

ELL OH ELL

McAfee pushed through an update to their enterprise customers containing a corrupt .DAT file, which triggered a false positive. 

[The Brain]

FIAL?

[Barrister]

ELL OH ELL

McAfee pushed through an update to their enterprise customers containing a corrupt .DAT file, which triggered a false positive. 

Hilarious. 

[Caliga]

You'd think it was hilariously ironic if you had listened to any of my diatribes at work about how antivirus companies are a total racket.

[The Brain]

Pleated square frowns upon your shenanigans.

[garbon]

I think it is funny.

[Octavian]

Our whole company's network is shut down, as well as Kentucky gov't computers including police cruiser systems and the 911 system.

Kentucky: FAIL.

KFC - Kentucky Fried Computers

[Caliga]

McAfee Antivirus Program Goes Berserk, Reboots PCs
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 21, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) -- Workplace computers across the world got stuck rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.

Antivirus vendor McAfee Inc. confirmed that a software update caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. It has posted a replacement update for download.

Intel Corp. appeared to be one of the victims, according to employee posts on Twitter. Intel did not immediately return calls for comment.

Online users indicated that thousands of computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 were affected.

Peter Juvinall, systems administrator at Illinois State University in Normal, said the first computer started rebooting before 9 a.m. It quickly became evident that it was a major problem, affecting dozens of computers at the College of Business alone.

''I originally thought it was a virus,'' he said. When the tech support people concluded McAfee's update was to blame, they stopped further downloads of the faulty software update and started shuttling from computer to computer to get them working again.

McAfee shares fell 20 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $40.39 in afternoon trading.

[Caliga]

KFC - Kentucky Fried Computers

I'll have mine with the Thermal Compound sauce PLZ

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yes. I've been getting e-mail updates abuot this.  They have released a fix.  Fucking idiots.  From the lack of urgent e-mails and voicemails (I'm at home) I guess the liberry got spared this fuckup.