RE: Oops: McAfee Update Exterminates Excel

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

Here's the list of all files that it false positived on....  I saw naprdmgr.exe and updateUI.exe in there... Two of 
McAfee's own files!
  How was this not detected in their DAT testing?  

http://vil.nai.com/images/CTX_file_list.pdf 


Could have been worse tho, and this is prolly the worse thing that's happened with DATs in the past 5 or so years....  
I guess everyone is allowed one SNAFU a decade... The next 5 years should be a cake walk :-)  


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, MCSE, MCP+I 
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of TheGesus
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:23 PM
To: Drsolly
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Oops: McAfee Update Exterminates Excel

Not only Excel.  Some Oracle bits and pieces are missing.  And a lot
of in-house apps.

Our main "revenue generating application" is down today.  Lots of
unhappy people.

I was the AV guy up until last year and there has never been a worse
false positive.

The new AV guy is having a bad day. :-)

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