{"id":3546,"date":"2010-04-26T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2010-04-26T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T12:43:22","slug":"mcafees-tech-problem-resolved-image-problem-will-take-much-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/26\/mcafees-tech-problem-resolved-image-problem-will-take-much-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee’s tech problem resolved: image problem will take much longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the technical disaster of an anti-virus company releasing an update that shut down many of their customers’ computers, McAfee<\/a> now has to cope with the public relations disaster:<\/p>\n

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After dealing with McAfee’s most recent fix that sabotaged Windows XP PC clients worldwide, users of the antivirus software headed over to Twitter to vent their rage, creating a public-relations and legal nightmare that will likely continue long after the last machine is patched.<\/p>\n

“I hate McAfee,” more than one Tweeter wrote, summing up the frustration felt when a McAfee update identified a “normal Windows process” as malware and killed it, kicking off a death spiral for the affected machines.<\/p>\n

Another Tweet: “McAfee DAT 5958, you’ve made…no wait, what’s the opposite of “made my day”?… you’ve DESTROYED MY DAY. hate you McAfee. HAAATEEEEE.”<\/p>\n

“VirusScan,” another person Tweeted. “The cure is worse than the disease.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was fortunate, as fellow blogger William P.<\/a> alerted me to the issue and I got home and turned off McAfee automatic updating before my desktop machine loaded the poison update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the technical disaster of an anti-virus company releasing an update that shut down many of their customers’ computers, McAfee now has to cope with the public relations disaster: After dealing with McAfee’s most recent fix that sabotaged Windows XP PC clients worldwide, users of the antivirus software headed over to Twitter to vent their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[109,156,51,92],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-fail","tag-pr","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Vc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}