Posts by Paul 71

Sex Offenders returns to iTunes

mob justice

I can hear the paedo-finder general brandishing a copy of the sun right now...

McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide

Less of the hyperbole please

To everyone who says the best solution is to just not use antivirus: You clearly don't work in an organisation with any actual users.

As for McAfee, this incident was definitely a massive fail on their part but I do think lazy sys admins should take the blame for not updating their engine even though it hasn't been supported for quite some time.

Furthermore, while McAfee is definitely a pain in the arse sometimes (for example, we've discovered a problem here on 'older' machines where performing DAT updates takes up 100% CPU and absolutely kills a machine for 5 minutes every day - McAfee have told me this is normal behaviour) but I have it on good authority that their management/deployment solution (epo) is pretty much unmatched by it's rivals.

Lastly, I just want to point out that in my experience people (users mainly, but IT people as well) have a tendency to blame every problem that arises on McAfee (or whatever AntiVirus product is installed) even if it is completely obviously unrelated.