McAfee Retracts Lowball Bug Damage Estimate

bennyboy64 writes "McAfee has changed its official response [warning: interstitial] on how many enterprise customers were affected by a bug that caused havoc on computers globally. It originally stated the bug affected 'less than half of 1 per cent' of enterprise customers. Now McAfee's blog states it was a 'small percentage' of enterprise customers. ZDNet is running a poll and opinion piece on whether McAfee should compensate customers. ZDNet notes a supermarket giant in Australia that had to close down its stores as they were affected by the bug, causing a loss of thousands of dollars."

Comments

Re:McAfee

[Anonymous Coward]

I, too, not run Avast Home. Me switch to MS Security Essentials.

Re:Really?

[pinkj]

Maybe Australia only has one big grocery store somewhere in the Outback. Kinda of like what we have in Canada except it's a giant igloo in northern Toronto.

Which is more harmful?

[goffster]

McAfee or being part of a botnet?

Re:AV on POS computer??

[ifrag]

Or am I missing something here?

That it was in Australia?

Re:AV on POS computer??

[Anonymous Coward]

wtf is AV doing on a POS computer?

This setup also seems somewhat redundant, since McAfee's AV itself is a POS.

Re:what it did to my 11'000 computers

[Blakey Rat]

who the
fuck taught you to
type? your
line spacing is the
strangest thing i've ever seen and

your reluctance to use punctuation and the
shift key (except for one comma that
snuck through) boggles the
mind