Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations
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 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** 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 From: Drake, David [david.dr...@schwab.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM Subject: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/04/broken-mcafee-dat-update-cripples-windows-workstations.ars _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are
Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations
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 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 3:02 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** 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 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** 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 From: Drake, David [david.dr...@schwab.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM Subject: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/04/broken-mcafee-dat-update-cr ipples-windows-workstations.ars _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are
Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations
At least we have a WORKING fix now: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=contentid=KB68780. Tested and being deployed...manually. :\ Sincerely, Robert Fults Remedy Admin/Dev. Florida International University Email: rfu...@fiu.edumailto:rfu...@fiu.edu http://uts.fiu.eduhttp://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 ** 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 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 3:02 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** 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 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** 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 From: Drake, David [david.dr...@schwab.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM Subject: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/04/broken-mcafee-dat-update-cripples-windows-workstations.ars _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.comhttp://www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.comhttp://www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.comhttp://www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.comhttp://www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are
Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations
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Re: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations
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 From: Drake, David [david.dr...@schwab.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:00 PM Subject: Broken McAfee DAT update cripples Windows workstations ** http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/04/broken-mcafee-dat-update-cripples-windows-workstations.ars mailto:k...@schwab.com _attend WWRUG10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are
