McAfee has taken millions of clean computers to an endless reboot

The update released today (McAfee DAT 5958) to McAfee antivirus leads to endless reboots on Windows XP SP3, considering svchost.exe (Services) - a virus. PricewaterhouseCoopers New York (hundreds of thousands of computers there), college campuses , hospitals using medical software for Windows, and many other companies around the world have gone to

endless reboot . Black humor, but Mcafee is the first antivirus to officially recognize Windows as a virus. "Treatment" of the antivirus: Option 1: Restart to safe mode, rename mcshield.exe, reboot, run Virus Console, Tools -> Rollback DAT, rename mcshield back, reboot.







Option 2: Instead of renaming - in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ services \ McShield \ Start = 4, rollback in the same way.

An official fix from McAffee is expected. The official fix (and it was not too lazy for them to write 5 pages when there are four lines needed? See below) ... Update 5959 is already being laid out, within a few hours they promise that it will spread and fix. However, treatment will still have to be done with your hands, it seems, since an endless reboot will probably not allow updates.

A brief retelling of 5 pages of the official “treatment”:

1. Download extra.dat ;
2. Reboot to safe mode;
3. Copy extra.dat to c: / program files / common files / mcafee / engine;
4. Reboot

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Yoi Haji,
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