McAfee decides that svchost.exe is a virus!

[united]

Ha, this wreaked havoc at our office yesterday as well. Happened to 90% of just shy of 1,000 employee's computers. We proceeded to take a 10-2 patio lunch and they still weren't repaired when we got back, so home time.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Holy crap, that is bad news. That would REALLY piss me off. Companies that release updates to their products that do damage to customers machines seem to get off scott free. I'm sure there is a waiver somewhere in the installation notes saying you can't go after them but they really should be accountable.

I downloaded new drivers for my dual nvidia cards a month or so ago and these new drivers apparently disabled auto fan control meaning numerous people cooked their cards, I think mine were damaged as well.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I am going to bet the IT department disagrees with you. We use Symantec Endpoint Protection and over the last week I have cleaned 4 machines manually, the 5th is so infected that I will just wipe it tomorrow.

The best was the instructions for removing one on the Symantec site was disable system restore and ... run a Symantec scan...of course had Symantec been able to find and clean it, there wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.

We've used SEP to somewhat good results. We have some computers with DeepFreeze and their was a conflict between SEP and DeepFreeze that caused general slowness on the PCs, but DeepFreeze provided a patch to fix it. So, overall we're pleased with SEP.

However I do worry that Symantec will turn their product into more of a bloated piece of software like they've done with Norton. At one point Norton was good. I've been anti-McAfee since 1999. AVG is good for home users, and so is Avast (which I now use).

I've heard good things about Kapersky and am going to seriously investigate switching to it when our licensing for Symantec needs to be renewed.

[mykalberta]

We use Microsoft Forefront on over 12000 computers company wide.

So far until this conficker issue in the US with over 2000 SP2 computers it had worked great.

[bomber317]

Originally Posted by Buff

I've heard good things about Kapersky and am going to seriously investigate switching to it when our licensing for Symantec needs to be renewed.

I'm an advocate for Kaspersky as well, but they also have issues.

I've just rolled it out on our company network and a few things came up.

Couldn't roll out the latest version because it slowed network share browsing to a crawl. They rolled out a new SP for it, but it's still slow. So we're still on the old release.

One machine started to BSOD out of nowhere. Had to manually remove Kaspersky in safe mode to get it going again.

Granted, no AV software is perfect and Kaspersky is miles ahead of Symantec (what we used to have) but there will still be issues.

[Huntingwhale]

I would just love to find someone who programmes virus' and just beat the living tar out of them. Like seriously.

[pylon]

Personally, I have always been of the belief that the anti-virus companies are the ones making or at least responsible for the making of the viruses in the first place. Really easy way to drum up product demand when you think of it.

[Azure]

This affected quite a few home-owners too.

Absolutely ridiculous.