That is the question that preoccupies our minds about computer usage and safety. So this just in today, McAfee, a world wide anti virus program for your computer had a big glitch happen. If you are a home user no need to fear as of yet but for large business and government users, well it wasn't so fun for them today.
As of 9 a.m. Eastern time McAfee released an update that caused the users computer to reboot constantly. The problem, The update mistakenly took a regular windows file and thought it was a virus and deleted the file causing the computer to freak out and not know what to do but to just reboot and when it came to that point that the computer needed the file to use again it freaked out and rebooted.
McAfee was able to send another update to fix the issue but they are not sure how many computers have been affected, could be thousands, I am sure all the tech support personnel was trying to calm people down after freaking out themselves about there freaked out computers.
So for all you who have McAfee anti virus on your computers just keep an eye on things and don't freak out. Until next time happy computing.
2 comments:
Crazy virus. Truly we all rely way too much on our computers. 10 years ago I wasn't thinking about a computer. Now it is a major source of entertainment, personal finance, and educator for our family.
Crazy little virus.
Yep it amazes me how much we put our lives into these computers. A while ago I went out of the house and forgot my palm. I felt naked. I hurred and got it and when I had it in my pocket I felt complete. uggggg now with viruses everywhere its unreal. Thanks for the comment.
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