# McAfee anti-virus big oops **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 21, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735 "2010-04-21T11:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/1 "2010-04-21T11:09:05Z")
> **[Botched McAfee update shutting down corporate XP machines worldwide](https://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/mcafee-update--shutting-down-xp-machines/)** > > We can't officially confirm this yet but, We're hearing from all over that a bad McAfee for Windows XP update is causing computers worldwide to shut down. Appar... ---
**Author:** ![08GT500](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/08gt500/32/5417_2.png) [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/2 "2010-04-21T11:25:54Z")
That might hurt the corporate image. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/3 "2010-04-21T11:25:55Z")
lolz ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/4 "2010-04-21T11:43:34Z")
Glad we don’t use McAffe \ how would a company go about fixing this? I saw their response/solution, but I mean a large corporation would probably have to script something correct? Either that or go around machine to machine. ---
**Author:** ![9c1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9c1/32/7392_2.png) [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/5 "2010-04-21T12:00:10Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > Glad we don’t use McAffe +1 ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/6 "2010-04-21T12:10:55Z")
yep things are frantic here I’m running linux 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/7 "2010-04-21T12:11:56Z")
they accidentally the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![OriginalSterm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/originalsterm/32/4964_2.png) [@OriginalSterm](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OriginalSterm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/8 "2010-04-21T12:15:33Z")
We’ve had test equipment shut down because of it here at work. IT won’t let us remove the program, so we’ve got a “work around” while we are running tests. ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/9 "2010-04-21T12:16:12Z")
Weird they didn’t pick that up in a testing environment maybe they outsourced that department to India ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/10 "2010-04-21T12:16:17Z")
you can rollback the update pretty easily, FYI ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/11 "2010-04-21T12:16:45Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > Glad we don’t use McAffe > > \ > how would a company go about fixing this? I saw their response/solution, but I mean a large corporation would probably have to script something correct? Either that or go around machine to machine. Group policy? Most real enterprises test updates on their base images before rolling out updates anyways. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/12 "2010-04-21T12:18:41Z")
> [@LZ](#): > > Group policy? > > Most real enterprises test updates on their base images before rolling out updates anyways. from what I understand this is NOT happening on every machine, and this was not caught in testing ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mcafee-anti-virus-big-oops/153735/13 "2010-04-21T12:20:27Z")
Group Policy would be one way I guess, we usually don’t test ours out (to my knowledge), unless they are big upgrades like version, rather than patches. We are a much smaller scale however.