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Brandon Davenport

Apr 21, 2010

McAfee is now shutting down XP machines left and right - but thanks to the Twitterverse, news spread like wild fire and McAfee has some time to respond. This has been 100% confirmed, and a certain McAfee for Windows XP update is causing computers worldwide to shut down. Apparently DAT update 5958 deletes the svchost.exe file, and then causes mayhem. It makes McAfee turn on itself and causes a loss of network activity, and unstoppable restarts. The final total of botched PC’s could reach the millions if the McAfee team can’t come up with a fix in the next few hours. Engadget will have updates on the situation.

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Brandon Davenport

Apr 21, 2010

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