So who got hit with McAfee issues this morning

[crownjules]

idiot huge ass corporations

Symantec and McAfee are probably able to offer much better deals to corporations than the smaller AV companies. And I'd guess that since the onus of this failure is on McAfee's side and caused businesses to lose lots of money, they'll be offering even better deals to retain their customer base.

 

[trmiv]

Some of our systems got hit, but most are fine. I'm actually about to go run and fix a few right now. Maybe this will get the higher ups to finally look to switch from McAfee, which I and others have been trying to get them to do for years.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Luckily, Penn State is a Symantec house. But, at our local campus, we did learn from this. Better believe we are going to be extra careful rolling out updates (although the student machines are managed from the Park so we have no control on that).

 

[evident]

Symantec and McAfee are probably able to offer much better deals to corporations than the smaller AV companies. And I'd guess that since the onus of this failure is on McAfee's side and caused businesses to lose lots of money, they'll be offering even better deals to retain their customer base.

sigh. i really just want my work computer to not be a hog. ::cries::

 

[Molondo]

I think my uni got hit with that. I went to the library to do some work and all the computers were down.

 

[Pegun]

Oh, that would have sucked. Big campus to run around making office visits too.

First four hours of my day today was covering 8 academic side buildings for users who had issues. Thankfully the script is easy and quick to fix the issue.

 

[gaidensensei]

Looks like it's not just Corporate world that used McAffee.. Check this out!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/22/2880599.htm?section=justin
Computer glitch shuts down supermarket checkouts

Over 1,000 Coles Supermarket checkouts were forced to close across South Australia today because of a computer glitch in an anti-virus program.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/21/tech/main6418483.shtml
About a third of the hospitals in Rhode Island were forced to stop treating patients without traumas in emergency rooms. The hospitals also postponed some elective surgeries, said Nancy Jean, a spokeswoman for the Lifespan system of hospitals. The system includes Rhode Island Hospital, the state's largest, and Newport Hospital, the only hospital on Aquidneck Island.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/21/tech/main6418483.shtml
Intel Corp. appeared to be among the victims, according to employee posts on Twitter. Intel did not immediately return calls for comment.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/21/mcafee-glitch-reboots-computers-again-and-again/
People all over the country reported that their computers stopped working. Among the victimized organization were a hospital in Rhode Island, police in Kentucky and the National Science Foundation, according to the AP.

It would suck to work with McAffee today. Heck, even my last IT job was using it lol, wonder what's up with the server and the hundreds of clients on it.

 

[gaidensensei]

From Australia...

Botched antivirus knocks out 10% of Coles registers
ASHER MOSES
April 22, 2010 - 2:55PM

Didn't see this one before my repost but dang - must have sucked to be grocery shopping that day. I read somewhere that the manual fix process for 'infected' machines will take 30minutes give or take.

I'm guessing this involves booting up usb/cd windows xp repair, command console and replacing a correct version of svchost, then disabling/update correct patch/or reinstalling McAfee?

 

[brblx]

That's what you get for using McAfee

this. don't use AV software that behaves like a virus and expect good things to happen, FFS.

norton is bad enough, it's like getting the clap; but mcaffee is easily like herpes and syphilis combined.

 

[coloumb]

Intel was affected... it pretty much brought the entire geekoid engineers to a halt yesterday. I chuckled [I have a deep seeded dislike for how Intel treats vendors] as our company doesn't use that McAfee crap for virus protection.

I chuckled as I heard them announce over the intercom about the virus, what it did, and telling everyone not to panic and call IT. The setup "recovery" classes which everyone [Intel] had to attend later in the day [and it looks like they had classes this morning].

I initially thought it was some disgruntled employee who spread a virus through the facility/fab...

 

[spidey07]

Wifes work was totally shut down yesterday. They told everybody to turn off their machines and unplug them it was so bad. She works for the state and most state computers were fubarred. It was so bad it messed up the police departments and the computers they use in their cruisers.