No end in sight for anti-virus software problems
Apr 28th, 2010 by Ryan Meyer
Most readers are aware of last week’s McAfee fiasco. A definitions update was pushed out that flagged svchost as malicious, crashing every Windows XP SP3 machine on reboot.
IT admins spent countless hours – some throughout the night – recovering from McAfee’s negligence.
ars technica published a great article detailing some of the other false positive nightmares over the years and explaining why there is no end-all solution in sight.