RE: Oops: McAfee Update Exterminates Excel

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Right, but I've already heard a few jokes, re: "McAfee's .dat
update did far more damage than the BlackWorm/Kama Sutra worm
could ever possibly have done"... or something to that effect. ;-)

- ferg

-- Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:

Here's the list of all files that it false positived on....  I saw naprdmgr.exe and updateUI.exe in there... Two of 
McAfee's own files!
  How was this not detected in their DAT testing?  

http://vil.nai.com/images/CTX_file_list.pdf 


Could have been worse tho, and this is prolly the worse thing that's happened with DATs in the past 5 or so years....  
I guess everyone is allowed one SNAFU a decade... The next 5 years should be a cake walk :-)  

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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