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What is the McAfee glitch 2010?
What is the McAfee glitch 2010?
Caterina
Mon Feb 10 2025
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The McAfee glitch 2010 refers to an incident where a faulty virus definition update released by McAfee antivirus software mistakenly identified a critical Windows system file as a virus, causing millions of computers worldwide to crash and continuously reboot. This incident occurred on April 21, 2010, affecting a large number of users and requiring manual intervention for recovery.
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CryptoMercenary
Tue Feb 11 2025
In 2010, McAfee faced a critical problem.
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Lorenzo
Tue Feb 11 2025
Computers running Windows XP Service Pack 3 were particularly affected.
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DiamondStorm
Tue Feb 11 2025
Many of these machines began to crash unexpectedly.
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Carlo
Tue Feb 11 2025
An antivirus update went wrong and caused significant issues.
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Maria
Tue Feb 11 2025
Others fell into a loop of endless rebooting, rendering them unusable.
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