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McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide

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249 points andreyf | 1 comments | 21 Apr 10 17:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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mrcharles ◴[21 Apr 10 18:22 UTC] No.1282918[source]▶
Just another nail in the coffin of the usefulness of AV systems. And good riddance.

My work computer actually has McAfee on it, which I've disabled through the registry. Don't like how slow it makes my computer.

Education, people! It's better than buying useless feel-good software.

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1. dustingetz ◴[22 Apr 10 11:13 UTC] No.1284725[source]▶
not all malware requires user permission to execute -- modern web malware uses a browser exploit to run itself, you and i probably wouldn't realize it.