Wednesday, August 2nd 2006
Waking up to BIG problems with McAfee
McAfee has a bad day
If any of you are McAfee users, you may have noticed a cool new Security Center installation this morning. But one thing that makes this new launch interesting is that with the Launch of four other new products McAfee is Issuing a major bug fix.
In my opinion the new security center certainly looks better, but now McAfee users have to relearn how to navigate it. Many users are not at ease with this situation where McAfee tries to slip a Major Bug fix under the radar, It is simply not pleasant for the customers.
Source:
TheINQ
If any of you are McAfee users, you may have noticed a cool new Security Center installation this morning. But one thing that makes this new launch interesting is that with the Launch of four other new products McAfee is Issuing a major bug fix.
TheINQThe bug fix closes a hole in its SecurityCenter application which had been spotted by security expert, eEye. McAfee rated the hole as 'medium' in terms of its severity.More information on this story can be found here
But eEye's chief hacking officer, Marc Maiffret, took umbrage at McAfee's previous behaviour.
It had quietly fixed another problem eEye had told the company about without even bothering to tell its customers.
"Fixing an extremely critical vulnerability without the proper notification is a disservice to customers," Maiffret complained.
In my opinion the new security center certainly looks better, but now McAfee users have to relearn how to navigate it. Many users are not at ease with this situation where McAfee tries to slip a Major Bug fix under the radar, It is simply not pleasant for the customers.
5 Comments on Waking up to BIG problems with McAfee
Anyways I now use Nortons, Adaware and Yahoo Anti-Spy. They all work great together. That is on top of my two firewalls as well. Another piece of software which is also good to use (I use it sometimes) is Peer Guardian. It closes ports to certain IPs so they cannot get into your computer.
Personally I use Bitdefender 9 with ZoneAlarm Pro, Spyware Blaster, and Spybot S&D. Havent had anything major get into my system since I started using this.