McAfee Quietly Fixes Software Flaw

Chris Reimer writes "The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that McAfee fixed a serious design flaw months ago in their enterprise product without notifying businesses and U.S. government agencies until today." From the article: "McAfee said its own engineers first discovered the flaw, which lets attackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs. McAfee produced a software update in February but described it only as offering new feature enhancements. Many corporations and government agencies are reluctant to update software unless necessary because of fears that doing so might introduce new problems."

Re:Fear, uncertainty, doubt.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, but you're not making a whole load of sense here.

McAfee found a design flaw back in February and quitely fixed it, meanwhile some other dudes, independently, find the flaw in the OLD FLAWED implementation between May and July.

I can't see anything that you have cited that frankly indicates that the news report is inaccurate. Perhaps you can provide some time line of events that supports your original assertion.

Beware of McAfee

[pobster]

McAfee is possibly my least favorite piece of software - not only does it do it's job badly & slow down everything but it doesn't uninstall even vaguely properly.

It can be a heck of a fight to actually get rid of it - see http://www.myfixes.com/articles/mcrem [myfixes.com] for details on how to root it out.

Removing over 100 spyware progs from my friends poor PC gave less of a speedup than finally removing McAfee! Get AVG or NOD32 for antivrus, Zonealarm for firewall and Adaware SE, Spybot S & D and Spywareblaster for antispyware. Try HijackThis and SysInternals stuff if you really want to know whats happening on your Windows Installation.

Or just get Ubuntu or PClinuxOS already...