they getcha' coming and going....
"McAfee Antivirus Update Gives NT 4.0 the Flu
Update damages master boot record, forcing users to
reinstall operating systems.
George A. Chidi Jr., IDG News Service
Wednesday, December 20, 2000
An upgrade to Network Associates' McAfee VirusScan product was
found recently to damage the master boot record on computers
using Windows NT 4.0, forcing customers to reinstall their operating
systems.
The conflict occurred with VirusScan/Netshield 4.0.2 and the
4120/4110 SuperDAT utility and affected only about 20 to 50 users,
says Vincent Gullotto, senior director of Avert, Network Associates'
virus research center. The utility automatically upgrades the virus
protection with the latest edition of the DAT file, containing current
virus profiles. The 4110 upgrade was incompatible with the
two-year-old version of VirusScan/Netshield, Gullotto says.
"The product was designed to begin working with a specific product
version. An update was created for SuperDAT that a two-year-old
product didn't understand," he says. "Anything newer than 4.0.2 on
your computer and it wouldn't have been a problem. Ninety-five
percent of the users would have updated their version by now."
Network Associates has pulled the edition causing the problem, and
new packages are available that address the incompatibility issue
regarding both the VirusScan 4.0.2 for Windows NT and NetShield
4.0.2 for Windows NT with the 4.1.00 series engine. The new
version is available for download at McAfee.com."
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