McAfee Antivirus Glitch Takes Down Windows XP PCs Worldwide
CNET reports that an update for McAfee's antivirus software is causing major problems for computers still running Windows XP. The update is causing computers to continuously reboot or shut down. Businesses, schools and police departments are facing crashed computers as a result of the McAfee update.
The University of Michigan's medical school reported that 8,000 of its 25,000 computers crashed. Police in Lexington, Ky., resorted to hand-writing reports, and turned off their patrol car terminals as a precaution. Some jails cancelled visitation.
An AP story says some hospitals had to "to stop treating patients without traumas in emergency rooms" because computers were rendered useless by the McAfee glitch. The AP also says the McAfee update causes the antivirus software to identify a normal Windows file as a virus.
ZDNet reports that a support page for workarounds for Windows XP machines running McAfee antivirus software can be found here.
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