March 10, 2006
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Excel = Virus … At Least to McAfee
Because of an error in a virus definition update, McAfee’s antivirus product was, for a brief time today, quarantining or deleting, depending upon your settings, Excel and other applications from PCs.
McAfee update exterminates Excel
Published: March 10, 2006
By Joris Evers
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
McAfee has been able to pinpoint the cause of the problem and hopes it can avoid it in the future, Telafici said.
The problem occurred with virus definition file 4715, which was released at about 10:45 a.m. on Friday as part of McAfee’s daily update cycle. The repaired, emergency-definition file 4716 was pushed out at about 3:30 p.m.
McAfee Anti-Virus Causes Widespread File Damage
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Posted by Roblimo on Monday March 13, 2006
AJ Mexico writes, “[Friday] 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.”
McAfee 4715 DAT False Positive Deletion Reports Follow-up
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