A buggy antivirus update distributed by McAfee yesterday disabled hundreds of thousands of computers running Windows XP Service Pack 3 by causing them to crash and reboot repeatedly as a result of quarantining svchost.exe, a critical Windows process.
Only those McAfee users how had the “Scan Processes on Enable” feature enabled on their systems fell victim to the glitch, though. Said feature was introduced with VirusScan 8.7.
More detailed coverage is available at Computerworld.
McAfee’s instructions for repairing affected computers are available here.
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