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Virus Signature Database Update 5418, released on September 2, 2010 at 6:00 AM PST may cause an “ekrn.exe” error. Other reported issues include ekrn crashing, systems not responding and threat notifications with blank name fields.

At 8:00 AM PST, Virus Signature Database update 5419 was released In most cases, restarting your computer and updating your ESET security product will resolve the issues you are experiencing.

If the issue persists after restarting and updating your ESET security product, then restart again. If you still experience issues after restarting twice, uninstall and reinstall your ESET security product.

Business Customers
If you cannot restart your system, update your ESET security product to Virus Signature Database update 5419 and run “net start ekrn” from the Command Line to start ekrn.exe. If you receive a message that ekrn started successfully, your issue should be resolved.

If you are using a mirror server, click Tools ? Server options ? Updates and deselect the Provide updates via internal http server option. Click Update now and ensure that it updates to 5419. Then re-select the Provide updates via internal http server option and click OK.

If you continue to receive this error or experience other issues related to this update, and you are currently running virus signature update 5419, download and run this utility: http://download.eset.com/special/eset_update_fix.exe on all workstations.

For customers running virus signature update 5417 or 5418, run the utility and then manually update workstations.

If you continue to experience problems after completing all steps above, contact ESET Customer Care.

http://www.eset.com/support/contact

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SANS Internet Storm Center.
Published: 2010-04-21

McAfee’s “DAT” file version 5958 is causing widespread problems with Windows XP SP3. The affected systems will enter a reboot loop and loose all network access. We have individual reports of other versions of Windows being affected as well. However, only particular configurations of these versions appear affected. The bad DAT file may infect individual workstations as well as workstations connected to a domain. The use of “ePolicyOrchestrator”, which is used to update virus definitions across a network, appears to have lead to a faster spread of the bad DAT file. The ePolicyOrchestrator is used to update “DAT” files throughout enterprises. It can not be used to undo this bad signature because affected system will lose network connectivity.

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8656

Anecdotal numbers of affected computers could reach a final tally that reaches into the millions.

Nilay Patel at Engadget quotes a statement from McAfee

The faulty update has been removed from McAfee download servers for corporate users, preventing any further impact on those customers. We are not aware of significant impact on consumer customers and believe we have effectively limited such occurrence.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/mcafee-update–shutting-down-xp-machines/

McAfee Corporate KnowledgeBase ID: KB68780

http://vil.nai.com/vil/5958_false.htm

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Updater for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

April 12, 2010

Upcoming Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.2 and 8.2.2 to be Delivered by New Updater Adobe Reader Blog Steve Gottwals On Tuesday, April 13, 2010, as part of our quarterly update, we will activate the new updater for all users needing Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.2 and 8.2.2 for Windows and Macintosh. As of yesterday, April [...]

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BitDefender: Faulty Update Disables 64-bit Windows Systems

March 22, 2010

BitDefender PressCenter Faulty Update for 64 bit Operating Systems 22 March 2010 We understand your disappointment , we have solved the problem for many of our users already and we are continuing to work relentlessly to rectify the problem for all users still affected. Yesterday around 8:20am PST, an update that we were working on [...]

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Thunderbird 3.0 available

December 13, 2009

The latest release of Thunderbird has a different look and new features. Tabs If you like Firefox’s tabbed browsing, you’re going to love tabbed email. Tabbed email lets you load emails in separate tabs so you can quickly jump between them. Perhaps you’re responding to an email and need to refer back to an earlier [...]

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ESET Smart Security and Windows 7 upgrades

August 3, 2009

ESET Technical Alert Microsoft has notified software developers that some of the technologies used by security, backup, disk utility and network management programs are incompatible with the Windows Vista to Windows 7 upgrade process. This is a direct result of Microsoft’s design decisions and impacts most antivirus solutions that scan network data. ESET has verified [...]

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Toolbars by any other name

July 5, 2009

Comodo announcement What’s New In 3.10.102194.530? ============================== NEW! COMODO Secure DNS is introduced as a new free service NEW! COMODO HopSurf Toolbar – COMODO SafeSurf Toolbar has been discontinued and superseded by COMODO HopSurf Toolbar On-going topic at calendarofupdates.com

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orbasoft.com spammer

June 14, 2009

Spammer Beatrice registered to comment my blog 13 times in a row urging a purchase of Orbasoft Antispyware. Spammer is Alda123 here Stop Forum Spam and here http://www.botscout.com/ipcheck.htm?ip=59.98.206.238 Examples, Orbasoft Antispyware was the answer to my computer bug problems and it was certainly worth every penny I spent to have this great antispyware to protect [...]

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ESET Update module released-resolves compatibility with Vista and Windows Server 2008 SP2

June 6, 2009

Eset Knowledgebase A fix for affected systems has been released as an update module. The updated module will be downloaded automatically when a virus signature database update occurs in ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus. After the update is downloaded, the entry for the Anti-Stealth module in the About window for ESET Smart Security [...]

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Apple patches security holes in iTunes QuickTime

June 2, 2009

About the security content of iTunes 8.2 Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. Fixes a stack buffer overflow. About the security content of QuickTime 7.6.2 Fixes a number of security vulnerabilities. Apple Security Updates

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