{"id":7810,"date":"2010-04-21T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/21\/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:52:11","slug":"did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you experience McAfee Rebot Syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee Inc. confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. It has posted a replacement update for download.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee could not say how many computers were affected, but judging by online postings, the number was at least in the thousands and possibly in the hundreds of thousands.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Details are somewhere on the internet but I lost the link.  Sorry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t. Because I  &#8230;. well, never mind.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Somebody, deleted email by accident.  Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus. McAfee Inc. confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/did-you-experience-mcafee-rebo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did you experience McAfee Rebot Syndrome?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-21Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}