John's Tech Blog

Yes, this was definitely a big problem. I was waiting to see real numbers from large organizations - to quote an anonymous comment from the story:

"...700 files quarantined on more than 100 computers."

That thats nothing, our corporation had 500,000 files deleted on more than 6,500 machines. We were in all weekend trying to fix this problem, shall we foot the bill to Mcafee?

Oops: McAfee Update Flags Hundreds of Innocuous Programs: "Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix: Anti-virus giant McAfee acknowledged late last week that a recent update to a number of its software products went terribly awry, causing them to flag hundreds of legitimate third-party programs as hostile and prompting users to delete or quarantine them. The files identified by McAfee as malicious included excel.exe (Microsoft Excel) and gtb2k1033.exe"

From: Fergie's Tech Blog