Thursday, October 8, 2009

New McAfee virus?!?

I don't really use my computer for much, I don't open emails I shouldn't, I have way too much virus, adaware, and firewall protection. I visit websites I need to (Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Answers, my credit unions, and ebay). This morning I got up and started my pc as usual...but it didn't start as usual. Once the whole computer had finished loading, McAfee announced with in second that it had downloaded and installed an update...which at the moment seemed kinda weird, but I accepted it. But then Microsoft Vista and McAfee both screamed there was no virus protection...and yet, both of mine were turned on (McAfee is also virus protection on top of ClamWin.) So I restarted like McAfee wanted me to, but the computer got to the part where it loads desktop and it doesn't. Just a black screen with the mouse saying it was thinking. Immediatly I figured that there was a virus, and that it was probably busy doing something. I have booted into Safe Mode and am scanning now. Any suggestions?



New McAfee virus?!?suzuki



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Sorry the problem is purely McAfee. Both McAfee and Symantec produce software that is a disaster, but have large marketing budgets that push their product. The type of problem you are reporting is well known, worse yet are the interactions with other kernel mode software on Windows. Since both of these companies have code to be sure that their software will not run in the presence of a debugger, the number of bad interactions you will get with this crap is amazing.

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