McAfee users be warned!!

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Mar 13, 2006 | 06:11 AM

Churnd

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From: Hattiesburg, MS

McAfee users be warned!!

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...22215&from=rss

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"[Friday] McAfee released an anti-virus update that contained an anomaly in the DAT file that caused many important files to be deleted from affected systems. At my company, tens of thousands of files were deleted from dozens of servers and around 2000 user machines. Affected applications included MS Office, and products from IBM (Rational), GreenHills, MS Office, Ansys, Adobe, Autocad, Hyperion, Win MPM, MS Shared, MapInfo, Macromedia, MySQL, CA, Cold Fusion, ATI, FTP Voyager, Visual Studio, PTC, ADS, FEMAP, STAT, Rational.Apparently the DAT file targeted mostly, if not exclusively, DLLs and EXE files." An anonymous reader added, "Already, the SANS Internet Storm Center received a number of notes from distressed sysadmins reporting thousands of deleted or quarantined files. McAfee in response released advice to restore the files. Users who configured McAfee to delete files are left with using backups (we all got good backups... or?) or System restore."

Basically what this is saying is, if you have McAfee and you update it, it'll most likely render some of your user files such as Word documents, Excel documents, etc., useless.

If you use McAfee, hold off on updating until they fix this. If you already have, your only solution according to McAfee is to use System Restore in Windows XP/ME or to use that handy backup drive or CD('s) that you had already made. Well, you DID backup your stuff, right??