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General Software Discussion / Re: Here we go again with false positive antivirus actions bricking computers
« Last post by timowers on May 09, 2010, 08:13 AM »the McAfee screw up DID affect "professional" users
Reading again I should have worded my post slightly differently. As you say in caps, 'DID' because whatever the edition type, both home and professional users know McAfee can no longer be considered a reliable solution. Any business worth its salt will never deploy a new version without having trialled it in a sandbox box environment for at least a month first. Then, after deployment all definition updates would never be pushed out as they come in, rather deployed to a red test network first, then once proven the Admin would allow deployment. These false positives should then be caught before doing any harm. Most FP's have an understandable, underlying reason but for Mcafee to bang out these FP's without undergoing a basic degree of QA first is unacceptable.
There is really only one solution in the Enterprise arena that has a reliable and proven track record, which is why when McAfee contracts are up for renewal, they aren't, and are jumping ship ASAP.