Tuesday 27 April 2010

McAfee bug problem April 2010

If you are running McAfee antivirus you may have a problem resulting from a bug in a recent update from McAfee which cripples your XP machine.
We noticed this in a machine that lost all network function, could not copy or paste and had other quirky behaviour.
After scanning it with several antivirus programs we found that the 'svchost' was being deleted. We were able to copy this file onto the relevant folder by putting the disk in another computer.
We could then open the system successfully in safe mode and remove the bad McAfee.
After that we installed a copy of Panda Antivirus which has proved successful for us.

You can find more information by clicking on these two links

http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/04/21/w32wecorl-a-wecorl-a-dcom-server-process-launcher-terminated-what-it-means/

http://vista.blorge.com/2010/04/26/mcafee-to-compensate-home-users-over-xp-update-bug/

If you are having problems with this issue we can help out.

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