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McAfee AV Patch Leaves Some Computers Unbootable
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in News on June 10, 2009
Oopsy-daisy! According to complaints on McAfee’s message board, a mandatory service pack for the company’s antivirus VSE 8.7 software has left some machines unbootable. The update, which was issued on May 27 and later pulled on June 2, was intended to squash minor security bugs, but also inadvertently flagged some Windows system files as malware.
“McAfee removed Patch 1 for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i from its download servers out of precaution after a potential issue with the update was discovered,” McAfee said in a statement. “A very small number of customers reported trouble with the patch on a limited number of computers.”
McAfee went on to say that it’s working on identifying the cause of the false positives and, once resolved, will repost the mandatory update.
This case shows clearly that It is always recommended to read the instruction carefully before applying any patches and also search information about these updates from a third party like CERT’s in the world because they usually test any updating package and provides some information about the impact.
[Source: MAXIMUMPC]
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Honeynet Project Discovered a hole in Conficker
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in News on March 31, 2009
Researchers at The Honeynet Project has discovered a vulnerability in the Conficker that makes it easy to detect,The Conficker adds changes in Windows that can be detected remotely by using a various scanning methods which is already integrated into different popular scanning tools.
Members of the Honeynet Project founded that conficker infected host’s respond with error code for some specially crafted RPC messages, now you can find the detection methods that can be used to contain Conficker’s impact in the update and modified version of the scanners (Nessus, ncircle, Qualys and Nmap).
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster” (Sun Tzu) .So go a head and check your networks against Conficker.
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