Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

2010-04-22 Thread Robert Fults 
At least we have a WORKING fix now: 
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB68780.  Tested and 
being deployed...manually. :\

Sincerely,

Robert Fults
Remedy Admin/Dev.
Florida International University
Email: rfu...@fiu.edu<mailto:rfu...@fiu.edu>
http://uts.fiu.edu<http://uts.fiu.edu/>

From: Tommy Morris [mailto:tommy.mor...@radioshack.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

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That was actually a perfect example of how McAfee is keeping PC's safe from 
viruses. Proactively shutting down machines before they can be attacked :P

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At UNT it killed thousands of XP machines that get their dats pushed out by 
E-Policy Orchestrator as soon as a new dat appears.  Machines not on EPO that 
pull their dats daily were not affected; by the time they pulled, McAfee had 
removed the offending dat 5958.

Sometimes "proactive" isn't better.

Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
Call Tracking Administration Manager
University of North Texas Computing & IT Center
http://itsm.unt.edu/
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This killed us today...  Cleanup will be going on for a bit.  And I don't even 
want to think about how many students are being effected... :S

Sincerely,

Robert Fults
Remedy Dev/Admin
Florida International University

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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM
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Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

2010-04-22 Thread Tommy Morris 
That was actually a perfect example of how McAfee is keeping PC's safe
from viruses. Proactively shutting down machines before they can be
attacked :P

 

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Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

 

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At UNT it killed thousands of XP machines that get their dats pushed out
by E-Policy Orchestrator as soon as a new dat appears.  Machines not on
EPO that pull their dats daily were not affected; by the time they
pulled, McAfee had removed the offending dat 5958.

 

Sometimes "proactive" isn't better.

 

Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
Call Tracking Administration Manager
University of North Texas Computing & IT Center
http://itsm.unt.edu/ 

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This killed us today...  Cleanup will be going on for a bit.  And I
don't even want to think about how many students are being effected...
:S

 

Sincerely, 

 

Robert Fults

Remedy Dev/Admin

Florida International University



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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM
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ipples-windows-workstations.ars

 

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Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

2010-04-22 Thread strauss 
At UNT it killed thousands of XP machines that get their dats pushed out by 
E-Policy Orchestrator as soon as a new dat appears.  Machines not on EPO that 
pull their dats daily were not affected; by the time they pulled, McAfee had 
removed the offending dat 5958.

Sometimes "proactive" isn't better.

Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
Call Tracking Administration Manager
University of North Texas Computing & IT Center
http://itsm.unt.edu/
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Robert Fults
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:43 PM
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Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

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This killed us today...  Cleanup will be going on for a bit.  And I don't even 
want to think about how many students are being effected... :S

Sincerely,

Robert Fults
Remedy Dev/Admin
Florida International University

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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM
Subject: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations
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Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

2010-04-21 Thread Robert Fults 
This killed us today...  Cleanup will be going on for a bit.  And I don't even 
want to think about how many students are being effected... :S

Sincerely,

Robert Fults
Remedy Dev/Admin
Florida International University

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Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM
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Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations

2010-04-21 Thread Drake, David 
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