You friggin idiot. There you go again doing a copy\paste and making the article
sound to be different.
Why not advise the people that use McAfee and are affected as to what to do to
rectify the issue.
You cause more harm than good.

See the following dumbass

McAfee VirusScan DAT Update May Cause Microsoft Windows System Failure
http://tools.cisco.com/security/cent...?alertId=20375

McAfee KnowledgeBase - False positive detection of w32/wecorl.a in 5958 DAT
https://kc.mcafee.com:443/corporate/...ent&id=KB68780

EXTRA.DAT to suppress detection of w32/wecorl.a false positive with the 5958
DAT file
http://community.mcafee.com/docs/DOC-1374


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"~BD~" <BoaterDave.NoSpam@Hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Thousands of PCs around the world have been paralysed by a security
> update that wrongly labelled part of Windows as a virus.
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> The update was sent out by security firm McAfee and made affected PCs
> endlessly restart.
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> Corporate customers of McAfee seemed to be hardest hit but some
> individuals reported problems too.
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> McAfee apologised for the mistake and released a fix to ensure PCs
> started working again.
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> Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8636985.stm
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