[pianotech] [Fwd: [DISCUSS] OT: McAfee automated update disaster...]

William Truitt surfdog at metrocast.net
Fri Apr 23 18:44:40 MDT 2010


Duane:

Why do I feel like the Great Unwashed of the software world when you post
these kinds of things to the forum? :-)

Will Truitt

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Duaine Hechler
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 8:39 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] [Fwd: [DISCUSS] OT: McAfee automated update
disaster...]



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[DISCUSS] OT: McAfee automated update disaster...
Date: 	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:34:51 -0500
From: 	Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	SLUUG general discussion <discuss at sluug.org>
To: 	SLUUG general discussion <discuss at sluug.org>



In case you had not already read about it, this may the cause of your
parent's/relative's/partner's Windoze box acting up:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/21/business/AP-US-TEC-McAfee-Antivir
us-Flaw.html?_r=1

The fix (which is not easy):
http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20003106-12.html?tag=col1;post-1066

Thankfully, this sort of problem never happens under open source:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-24.html

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Ben West
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