[Year 12 IT Apps] Reasons why ICT problems occur: incompetent service providers

[Mark KELLY]

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.

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.

Read More
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/mcafeebungle/#ixzz0lrwGbjuJ


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Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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School Phone +613 8520 9000
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