The McAfee Faulty AV Update happened a week or two ago and is no longer news.  But just today though, McAffee announced that it’s offering compensations:

http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/antivirus/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224600663

Although its impact isn’t huge in the sense that we’re not losing data and the problem is fix-able, my company suffered a lot of desktop downtime.  It took us about 2 days to get all the Windows desktops fixed.  As all of our graphics artists use Linux for their work, most of the people impacted were only business users or those developing software on Windows.  And that’s a blessing.  [Read on for what I have to say about virtualization]

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