Extreme Trix

McAfee Inc., released an update for their corporate editions of anti virus on Windows XP worldwide at 9am Eastern Time on 21st April, that caused computers in companies, hospitals and schools to stuck badly. Who so ever installed this update its computer got froze like hell because this update used to misidentifies a Windows file (svchost.exe file) as a Virus. They didn’t tell how many computers were effected, but this sure that the number was at least in thousand. They still didn’t how the error happened, but are trying to take effective measures. Just after some hours of that update they already posted a replacement update for download.

The computer problem forced one third of hospitals of Rhode Island to postpone electric surgeries and to stop treating patients without traumas in emergency rooms. Patients who were required treatment for gunshot wounds, bike-car accidents, blunt trauma and other potentially fatal injuries were admitted to emergency rooms, but didn’t get treated.

Because of this state Kentucky (a state located in the East Central United States of America) police were told to shut down computers in their patrol cars as technicians tried to solve the problem. Some big companies like Intel Corp., and TNSF foundation headquarters also lost computer access, according to a Tweet of an employee of Intel Corp., on Twitter.

Mike Rothman, who is president of Computer Scuirty commented on this-

It’s not un common for antivirus program to misidentify a legitimate file as a virus. However, the scale outage was unsual.

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Source: Times Global

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