McAfee Retracts Lowball Bug Damage Estimate 233
bennyboy64 writes "McAfee has changed its official response [warning: interstitial] on how many enterprise customers were affected by a bug that caused havoc on computers globally. It originally stated the bug affected 'less than half of 1 per cent' of enterprise customers. Now McAfee's blog states it was a 'small percentage' of enterprise customers. ZDNet is running a poll and opinion piece on whether McAfee should compensate customers. ZDNet notes a supermarket giant in Australia that had to close down its stores as they were affected by the bug, causing a loss of thousands of dollars."
Re:I'm still wondering ... (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe it was a "reminder" so we don't get complacent about license renewal?
"Gee, that's a nice operating system ya got there..."
Re:WHAT???? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:McAfee (Score:5, Funny)
I, too, not run Avast Home. Me switch to MS Security Essentials.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Which is more harmful? (Score:5, Funny)
McAfee or being part of a botnet?
Re:AV on POS computer?? (Score:4, Funny)
That it was in Australia?
Re:AV on POS computer?? (Score:4, Funny)
wtf is AV doing on a POS computer?
This setup also seems somewhat redundant, since McAfee's AV itself is a POS.
Compensate customers? (Score:2, Funny)
Poll? Opinion piece??? This is fucking America. Spare me the nonsense, show me the lawyers.
Re:XP SP3 (Score:3, Funny)
The plural of virus is viruses. Also, there's no reason to capitalize administrators here.
I know, I should proof-read more often.
Oh well, we all make mistakes - some larger than others (McAfee).
Re:what it did to my 11'000 computers (Score:1, Funny)
Burma Shave
Re:No, not possible. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what it did to my 11'000 computers (Score:5, Funny)
who the
fuck taught you to
type? your
line spacing is the
strangest thing i've ever seen and
your reluctance to use punctuation and the
shift key (except for one comma that
snuck through) boggles the
mind