McAfee Virus Definitions May Crash Your Box - UPDATE
UPDATE - According to an article on ZDNet, Network Associates has confirmed that the latest virus definitions, updated to maintain computer security against virus attacks, may cause certain computers to crash on boot. The problem stems from incompatabilities between the scanning engine and the virus update file. The only solution currently is to boot into safe mode and disable VirusScan system scan at startup. Read the rest of the article at ZDNet if you are interested. Thanks to Fred Krauth for the heads up in telling us the new SuperDAT updates will fix the problem with scan engine 4.0.70.
McAfee Develops Protection Against Denial-of-Service Attacks
McAfee, the anti-virus division of Network Associates, said it has come up with a solution to the denial-of-service attacks that have been hitting Web sites this week.
The firm has updated its VirusScan product to detect the "Zombie" code, which it says is responsible for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.