Anti-virus giant McAfee acknowledged late last week that a recent update to a number of its software products went terribly awry, causing them to flag hundreds of legitimate third-party programs as hostile and prompting users to delete or quarantine them.
The files identified by McAfee as malicious included excel.exe (Microsoft Excel) and gtb2k1033.exe (Google Toolbar installer), as well as programs that run Macromedia Flash Player, Sun’s Java application and Adobe update manager.
McAfee Update Flags Hundreds of Innocuous Programs
