McAfee users beware!

**bigfootedfred** · April 21, 2010, 06:22 PM

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04...000?art_pos=11

"A McAfee Update today (DAT 5958) incorrectly identifies svchost.exe, a critical Windows executable, as a virus and tries to remove it, causing endless reboot loops."

**Douchebag** · April 21, 2010, 06:42 PM

avg FTW

**iPwntUrMum** · April 21, 2010, 08:50 PM

I second that, free security ftw

Oh, and that crash is only for XP and 2000

**Top-Tier-Tech** · April 21, 2010, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by iPwntUrMum

Oh, and that crash is only for XP

ONLY XP?!

Ya, that's no big deal.....

**bigfootedfred** · April 22, 2010, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by ChaobSiroc

ONLY XP?!

Ya, that's no big deal.....

nah not at all...no one uses XP anymore right

I believe it also makes Vista crash

Im not sure about Vista, but 7 is unaffected as far as i know.

avg FTW

i like AVG, but i use avast myself.

**Shaio** · April 22, 2010, 04:21 PM

Which is just the beginning of your problems if your using McAfee, which starts with you having a virtually useless virus scanner, and ends with you having a program that is more harmful to the smooth running of your pc then half the viruses you come across out there.

Frankly virus scanners aren't that necessary, you can generally tell if a file contains a virus well before downloading said file, if you have the capacity for thought, its really easy to avoid.