OK, while it’s no secret that I think Microsoft products are viral, this is really funny. McAfee, bless their little formerly indicted heads, sent out an update today that, for a short time at least, quarantined and killed Microsoft’s Excel. I’ll give ya a moment. No really.
“At about 1 p.m. PST we started getting reports that people were seeing an unusual number of W95/CTX infections in their environment,” Telafici said. “Files that we did identify would probably be deleted or quarantined, depending on your settings.”
Roughly 100 customers reported the problem. Some individuals and…corporations.
The problem occurred with virus definition file 4715, which was released at about 10:45 a.m. on Friday as part of McAfee’s daily update cycle. The repaired, emergency-definition file 4716 was pushed out at about 3:30 p.m
