McAfee said Thursday it was trying to determine how it bungled a
security update that crashed perhaps tens of thousands of PCs across the
globe.
<p>Computers from Australia and Kentucky to the United Kingdom began
freezing up late Wednesday after the Santa Clara, California, security
firm released an updated definition file for its corporate antivirus
software. The update mistakenly identified a critical Windows file —
svchost.exe — as a worm and quarantined it, crashing computers running
Windows XP Service Pack 3.</p><div id="TixyyLink" style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><br>Read More <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/mcafeebungle/#ixzz0lrwGbjuJ">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/mcafeebungle/#ixzz0lrwGbjuJ</a><br>
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