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McAfee detects a Windows file as a Virus
Multiple computers in enterprises, hospitals and schools from all over the world were hung or restarted several times, after MacAfee Antivirus wrongly indentified a normal Windows file as a Virus.
McAfee Inc., the software vendor, confirmed that an update completed about 1500 GMT caused his enterprise antivirus identified as a Virus a harmless file. It has provided a corrected update for download.
“We have no news about an important or meaningful impact on the consumers and believe that the issue has been sorted out” pointed out the company in a communicate.
Despite of this the blogs authors and Internet forum participants disagreed, pointing out that thousands of computers based on the operating system update XP with Service Pack 3 were affected.
In Rhode Island Hospital, the largest in the state, this issue caused that the staff sent to other clinics patients coming to an emergency room without any severe trauma. The hospital postponed some scheduled surgeries as well.
Attention to patients carried on thanks to the contingency procedures, said Nancy Jean, Health system spokeswoman.
In Kentucky, state police asked them to switch off their patrol cars computers, while technicians tried to sort out the problem.
Peter Juvinall, systems administrator at Illinois State University in Normal, said that when the first computer started to reboot, was obvious that there was a serious issue, which affected dozens of computers, only in the faculty administration.
"First of all I thought it was a virus," he said. When the technicians concluded that it was McAfee, they stopped loading the update failed the safety program and began to go from one computer to another to normalize them.
Intel Corp. Seems to be one of the victims, according to their Twitter employees messages. Intel didn´t immediately return comments.
Information source: http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/11/20100421/tbs-amn-tec-antivirus-fallido-cabeza-f8250da.html
