Mcafee Update affects thousands of PCs
A Mcafee update that was recently released as affected thousands of computers around the world as it wrongly identified Windows as a virus.
The update paralysed computers and made them continually restart.
Commerical customers of Mcafee were mostly affected.
Mcafee have sinced apologised and released a new update to fix the issue.
Click here for more info.
- Submitted on: Monday 26th April 2010 @ 2:46 pm
- Submitted by: SOL Support
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