Panacea Blog

All users of McAfee anti-virus should be aware of a major problem that affects Windows XP SP3 and some other machines when the latest virus definition file is installed.  Affected machines will constantly re-boot and will lose network connectivity.  The problem has already affected some of our customers and where they have a managed service we are resolving the problems.  Other McAfee users can contact us for assistance or should refer to the following article for more information:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/04/broken-mcafee-dat-update-cripples-windows-workstations.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

McAfee’s own support site appears to have been overwhelmed and as such the broader web community appears to be a better source of up-to-date information at this time.

Tags: anti virus, McAfee, problem, XP