Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kit
McAfee is promising to patch a vulnerability in its hosted anti-malware service after it found a flaw that allowed systems where the product was installed to be turned into potential spam-relay nodes. SaaS for Total Protection, the vulnerable software, will be patched on "January 18 or 19, as soon as we have finished testing", …
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>"Bonnet takedowns"
Queen Victoria would not be amused by such unseemly behaviour! :-)
Bonnet takedowns
It's the sporran takedowns you want to be careful of!
SaaS
Spam as a Service.
Does what it says on the tin really.
Question
So is this Windows only? (No surprise if it is!)
Bwahahahhhah haha
Mine's the one being worn by someone grinning from ear to ear.
Perhaps we need another anti-virus tool to protect the installed anti-virus tool?
No.
Liscence expired and McAfee refused to scan.
Surely I have the right to scan my own computer with an out-of-date virus library if I so wish to do so? The only threats I would miss would be those trojans etc made in the interim. But no.
Uninstalled.
My 26 day old PC is Spam monster
Last night I got email bounced back to me by MSN and Hotmail saying my IP address was spamming.
A Brand new windoze 7 PC, only 26 days in use with a free 60 day trial version of McAfee.
I think the trial period just ended, AVG, zonealarm et al, here I come (again).
Use MS free products
With Windows 7, Windows Firewall and MSE knock spots off ZoneAlarm and AVG. The latter apps used to be essential add-ons for Windows, but are no longer relevant.
Learned a lesson we have, young PFY?
Much like build their own lightsaber does a Jedi, build their own rig does the BOFH
Youngling PFYs the Ways of the Net must learn.
UNLEARN the ways of the Dark Side you must: UNLEARN your hard-drive of pre-installed software you must.
If from a store your PC have you purchased, know that filled with the Dark Side it is; full of corruption and fear it is.
Windows leads to malware; malware leads to McAfee; McAfee leads to anguish; anguish leads to pain; pain leads to fear; fear leads to the Dark Side; the Dark Side leads to Windows: A circle of anguish, fear, pain and spam Windows is, young PFY.
Only when cleansed you hard-drive is can your journey to BOFH begin. Alert to pre-installed software the BOFH always is. Mindful of pre-installed Windows the wise BOFH is. Clean USB Boot Drive a BOFH always carries. A BOFHs mind and discipline his weapons are; not these crude apps of anti-malware. From Saint Travaglia and The Reg does a BOFHs knowledge and wisdom flow. Trust not the lies spread by Darth Balmer; trust not the promises of low resource use from Darth Norton.
ZoneAlarm?
1999 called and wants its aged advice back. ZoneAlarm LOL.
Deja Vu
Was it not so long ago, that a certain AV product went Pear shaped and stopped its host PC's from working, for the life of me I couldn't remember which one.
Excellent news
Now all McAfee need to do is patch the vulnerability in their installation program where the program installed turns out to be McAfee.
(Why am I questioning the IT angle? Because when you're talking about McAfee, "IT" is only ever half the story.)
mass increase of spam
Im not sure if this is related but Ive seen a massive increase of spam getting through our Fortigate filters in the last 10 days.
ActiveX???
You're kidding me....right?
ActiveX!?
I guess McAfee are one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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