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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by mcknz on Thursday August 19, 2010 @10:58AM (#1617533)
In April they issued an update that accidentally targeted legitimate Windows system files, causing the updated boxes to bluescreen. Astounding enterprise-level incompetence.
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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by bconway on Thursday August 19, 2010 @12:01PM (#1617719)
That might be excusable once (not really), but the problem is they do it every 3 months. Seriously, stay away from this stuff.
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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by ashishbharthi on Thursday August 19, 2010 @02:39PM (#1618153)
Oh yeah, McAFee has given blue screen to me many times. I bought Dell laptop for me and my gf. After McAFee free one year subscription expired, we decided to move to different anti virus. Once we uninstalled McAfee, both of our laptops got blue screens and crashed. My friend also had same experience with two of his computers.
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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by barrettcolin on Thursday August 19, 2010 @07:02PM (#1618955)
This happened to me too just this past week; the only resolution was a full system restore. Pretty shocking.
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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by Splines on Thursday August 19, 2010 @12:44PM (#1617843)
From what I've heard, Intel HQ was hit by this as well.
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Re:Intel to buy McAfee for $7.7 Billion by barkingcat on Thursday August 19, 2010 @01:30PM (#1617957)
maybe they weighed their options, and found that buying the company straight for 7 billion is cheaper than suffering through more downtime caused by McAfee software.
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