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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."
... why they didn't test the new dat file against Windows system files.
Seriously, we pay them a LOT of money for their product licenses and they cannot even test against known system files?
I guess less than half of 1% of all corporate customers are customers of McAffee.
The right wording is everything.
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
I feel sorry for that super market chain but: wtf is AV doing on a POS computer?
POS should be a dedicated computer, running one and only one application (the POS software), on a thoroughly shielded LAN, talking to only a centralised server (or small network of servers if one is not enough) that collects the sales data and distributes prices etc. That server should itself be connected only to the POS network and a corporate LAN. In other words: no direct access out of the Internet, no web browsing, no local storage of any data files, no downloading, nothing that could have the most remote risk of a virus.
Or am I missing something here?
Quite apt, even though not POS: http://xkcd.com/463/.