Comments on: Did you experience McAfee Rebot Syndrome? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:19:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Shawn Smith https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517608 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:19:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517608 For people using McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) the update that got automatically downloaded and applied (what ePO is supposed to do) looked at the start like a really bad worm. The file svchost.exe was the one that got marked as a virus and quarantined. My understanding (perhaps incorrect) is that it is the main way Windows starts up services, which is how various functions are enabled, like the network stack, USB ports, etc. At my job 7 of us spent about 3.5 – 4 hours touching all the PCs in the building getting things fixed. People were talking about shorting McAfee stock that day.

]]> By: Canadian Curmudgeon https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517607 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:16:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517607 a normal Windows file as a virus

This is news?

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517606 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:10:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517606 And another of the cow-orkers switched his company machine to Linux in large part because he can’t afford to waste several hours a week while the IS crew take it over for virus scans etc.

]]> By: BruceH https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517605 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:26:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517605 Greg, I couldn’t follow your link for more details since I don’t have a scienceblogs admin account. (Methinks the link is wrong.)

]]> By: GoatRider https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517604 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:41:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517604 McAfee and Norton are worse than viruses, imo.

]]> By: Mike Bok https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517603 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:40:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517603 Most networked computers at my university were down today, but not my lab desktop. I haven’t updated my antivirus in years and have never had a problem. Not opening random, questionable files from the dark corners of the internet seems to be a pretty good anti-virus solution.

]]> By: Joshua Zelinsky https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517602 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:36:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517602 I experienced it on a cluster machine earlier today. Oddly, the other machine in the cluster did not have the issue. I didn’t even realize that this was a non-local problem until I saw the news reports a few hours later.

McAfee screwed up big time with this one.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517601 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:33:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/04/21/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo/#comment-517601 Supposedly it was a corporate version update, not a general user update.

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