FROM THE IGLOO

I’m thinking that there are some people over at McAfee that are realizing now that it’s not a good idea to skimp on testing your releases before putting them out the door. If you have been hiding under a rock for the last few days you probably have not seen this little piece of news.

In a nutshell McAfee released a update to their antivirus software that quarantined some core system files on systems running Windows and that has resulted in a large number of systems being rendered inoperative. The Register is even going as far as to compare this issue with the effects of the Blaster worm and are questioning if any piece of malware has been able to take out that many systems as quickly and effectively. Now that’s not an entirely fair comparison as Blaster wasn’t a piece of software that users where trusting to work properly on their systems, but it’s still an interesting comparison.