Our whole company's network is shut down, as well as Kentucky gov't computers including police cruiser systems and the 911 system. :o
Kentucky: FAIL. :)
Hey, I clicked on this thread and failed to get a massive virus. :P
Wow, that was annoying. I apologize. I think we should disable the scrolling text to avoid future recurrences.
Malthus: FAIL. :)
They have Kentucky for computers now?
ELL OH ELL
McAfee pushed through an update to their enterprise customers containing a corrupt .DAT file, which triggered a false positive. :lmfao:
FIAL? :hmm:
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2010, 02:15:13 PM
ELL OH ELL
McAfee pushed through an update to their enterprise customers containing a corrupt .DAT file, which triggered a false positive. :lmfao:
Hilarious. :mellow:
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. :showoff:
Pleated square frowns upon your shenanigans.
I think it is funny. :)
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2010, 12:41:47 PM
Our whole company's network is shut down, as well as Kentucky gov't computers including police cruiser systems and the 911 system. :o
Kentucky: FAIL. :)
KFC - Kentucky Fried Computers
QuoteMcAfee 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.
Quote from: Octavian on April 21, 2010, 02:22:05 PM
KFC - Kentucky Fried Computers
I'll have mine with the Thermal Compound sauce PLZ
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.
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2010, 02:15:13 PM
ELL OH ELL
McAfee pushed through an update to their enterprise customers containing a corrupt .DAT file, which triggered a false positive. :lmfao:
Naiiled the entire University of Illinois, too. Lots of posts about it on my friends' Facebook pages. Well, at least they all got the afternoon off. :)
I wish my workplace network went down. :(
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 21, 2010, 02:54:25 PM
I wish my workplace network went down. :(
Make your dreams come true. all you need is a hammer and access to the server room :contract:
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 21, 2010, 02:54:25 PM
I wish my workplace network went down. :(
My boss sent me home. I was supposed to try to log in to see if Citrix was back up (as the IT dudes claim to have fixed everything), but I decided to take a nap instead. :)
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2010, 02:25:00 PM
QuoteMcAfee 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.
Finally Windows vista gives me an advantage.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 21, 2010, 04:52:00 PM
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2010, 02:25:00 PM
QuoteMcAfee 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.
Finally Windows vista gives me an advantage.
:shifty:
ITS TEH CORPRATIONS MAKIN US UPDATE TO WINDOWS 7!
No real person uses McSpyware.
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2010, 02:20:41 PM
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. :showoff:
Elaborate. :hmm:
Who the fuck uses an anti-virus program that is allowed to do something like reboot without the user's specific permission?
Quote from: garbon on April 21, 2010, 05:51:00 PM
No real person uses McSpyware.
I actually bought McAffee and I'm really happy with it. It doesn't cause problems take forever to do a scan and keeps my PC from getting nasty bugs. I honestly don't care if the evil corporations can discover my surfing habits alternate between languish, CNN, and porn.
@Solmyr
Poorly managed IT departments. Like mine, for example. :)
Quote from: Caliga on April 21, 2010, 02:15:13 PM
ELL OH ELL
McAfee pushed through an update to their enterprise customers containing a corrupt .DAT file, which triggered a false positive. :lmfao:
Yeah, it hit us hard too, kicking in all sorts of Oh Shit Business Continuity protocols. Our Vice-Chairman was so pissed he was trying to get through to McAfee leadership.
Quote from: Solmyr on April 22, 2010, 04:09:21 AM
Who the fuck uses an anti-virus program that is allowed to do something like reboot without the user's specific permission?
Who the fuck issues a batch .dat without testing?
Oh wait, we know the answer. McAfee.
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2010, 04:15:56 AM
@Solmyr
Poorly managed IT departments. Like mine, for example. :)
I multiOS here at work. For some reason the 32bits OS all have MCAfee, yet the 64bits don't.
Poor management indeed.
I dislike the Enterprise Management Orchestrator. A lot. But the school has a site license and it'd be hard to justifiy dropping money on a competitor out of my budget.
I was chatting with the Help Desk manager this morning (as he was reinstalling svchost.exe on my PC :rolleyes: ) about this and he said he was pushing to get us off McAfee a year and a half ago because it's such a POS, but DA MAN wouldn't listen.
They're also doing a Win 7 pilot and every app (including my apps) works, except for ADP Enterprise. Gee, what a shock that ADP could be causing problems. ^_^
:ccr i am getting HIPS because of a big IT audit.
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2010, 09:52:23 AM
I was chatting with the Help Desk manager this morning (as he was reinstalling svchost.exe on my PC :rolleyes: ) about this and he said he was pushing to get us off McAfee a year and a half ago because it's such a POS, but DA MAN wouldn't listen.
They're also doing a Win 7 pilot and every app (including my apps) works, except for ADP Enterprise. Gee, what a shock that ADP could be causing problems. ^_^
Symantec Corporate is just as bad. Don't swap one turd for another.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 22, 2010, 01:29:48 PM
Symantec Corporate is just as bad. Don't swap one turd for another.
Not my call, brah.
Quote from: Caliga on April 22, 2010, 03:17:21 PM
Not my call, brah.
We need to make it a Fate/Brah rule. :bleeding: