McAfee Antivirus Update Causes Problems for Home/Enterprise Customers

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A buggy update released Friday by security vendor McAfee for its consumer and enterprise antivirus products, left the computers of its customers unprotected and, in some cases, unable to access the Internet.

The incident affected both home and business users, some of whom were still trying to sort out the problems caused by the updates on Monday and Tuesday, according to messages posted on McAfee's community forums and Facebook page.

The problems were introduced by McAfee updates DAT 6807, released on Friday, and the subsequent DAT 6808, depending on which product was used.

After installing these updates some home users started encountering errors when accessing the McAfee Security Center console, which prevented them from performing any action inside the program. Other users experienced a loss of Internet connection on their computers.

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[gregrocker]

IMO MucAfee is one of the worst infections we deal with here.

The only way it works well is uninstalled.

It's been a natural evolution on the other end of the spectrum to near unanimity on Microsoft Security Essentials with the Win7 firewall. Once Avast bloated (and gadgeted) up it was dropped from recommendations seen here within six months.

 

[FredeGail]

Never liked McAfee. Had so much problems with it for so long. They still haven't fixed these solid white windows, even if it's a brand new computer. They're like the number one Blue Screen causer. If people pay for something they should definitely have something in return.

McAfee isn't quite there.

Best Regards,
Frederik.

 

[chev65]

IMO MucAfee is one of the worst infections we deal with here.

The only way it works well is uninstalled.

It's been a natural evolution on the other end of the spectrum to near unanimity on Microsoft Security Essentials with the Win7 firewall. Once Avast bloated (and gadgeted) up it was dropped from recommendations seen here within six months.

I heard that Greg, I've had no less than 30 people in the networking section with the no DNS access problem, all thanks to McAfee.

In some cases even McAfee's so called "Fix" did not fix the issue.

 

[richc46]

IMO MucAfee is one of the worst infections we deal with here.

The only way it works well is uninstalled.

It's been a natural evolution on the other end of the spectrum to near unanimity on Microsoft Security Essentials with the Win7 firewall. Once Avast bloated (and gadgeted) up it was dropped from recommendations seen here within six months.

With ATT I get a free subscription to Mcafee and I am using Microsoft Security Essentials, enough said.

 

[FredeGail]

Like a boss, Rich.

 

[Poimetheus]

Found this interesting. The tech in the station next to me literally just resolved an internet connectivity issue deemed related to McAfee yesterday. Uninstalled McAfee, problem went away.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Found this interesting. The tech in the station next to me literally just resolved an internet connectivity issue deemed related to McAfee yesterday. Uninstalled McAfee, problem went away.

I stop Using McAfee the moment AOL gave it out for free because it would be more problems that aol took it over and i felt the security would be compramised due to how many people

Choose to hack AOL so with that being said I find it hard that people still use it

 

[Borg 386]

I've had nothing but bad encounters with McFubar.

 

[Layback Bear]

McAfee is malware. I thought when Intel bought them in Aug of 2010 they would fix the problems McAfee was having. Well that didn't happen. Intel's attitude of getting things done and done correctly does not seam to have crossed over to the McAfee corporation.

 

[Poimetheus]

http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/docs/avc_sum_201112_en.pdf

This is a fairly comprehensive analysis of common antivirus softwares as of 2011.

It's funny though, McAfee won a "Gold" award for least amount of false positives. I guess that isn't hard when you don't get any true positives either.

 

[gregrocker]

The ratings are almost always rigged. On one site's ratings page was a huge ad for MucAfee.

The question remains why anyone would pay for A/V when there is a better free version unanimously recommended by the top tech site on the web.

 

[Poimetheus]

The ratings are almost always rigged. On one site's ratings page was a huge ad for MucAfee.

The question remains why anyone would pay for A/V when there is a better free version unanimously recommended by the top tech site on the web.

Exactly. Running MSE for monitoring, and having MWB, SAS, TDSS, etc for the ocassional deep scan are much more effective than one copy of SEP. I've had W7 since day one, and I think I've had ONE trojan that slipped in. It was also reconciled in minutes.

 

[x BlueRobot]

I've been using MSE with Windows 7, and Never have had a virus, whereas my step-dad uses Norton on his Windows XP system, and has a few viruses.

 

[Poimetheus]

7 has enhanced security features over XP too. Defender, UAC...

 

[gregrocker]

And the Defender preinstalled in Win8 is actually a beefed-up MSE with its name changed - the reccommended AV here for years.

Hardly a week passes when Norton doesn't miss a serious infection reported here. Similar reports about MSE are growing very infrequent. MS literally spends unlimited funds protecting their OS. No one has a greater interest in doing so.

 

[Layback Bear]

http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/docs/avc_sum_201112_en.pdf

This is a fairly comprehensive analysis of common antivirus softwares as of 2011.

It's funny though, McAfee won a "Gold" award for least amount of false positives. I guess that isn't hard when you don't get any true positives either.

:roflmao::roflmao:

 

[x BlueRobot]

7 has enhanced security features over XP too. Defender, UAC...

Yes, I agree with you there I've been trying to get him to upgrade to Windows 7 due to the better security features.

 

[Layback Bear]

Blue a way to start happy computing would be Windows 7 and Microsoft Security Essentials.