McAfee stole millions of clean computers into an endless reboot

The update released today (McAfee DAT 5958) to McAfee Antivirus leads to endless reboots on Windows XP SP3, considering svchost.exe (Services) as a virus.

PricewaterhouseCoopers New York (only there are hundreds of thousands of computers), college campuses , hospitals using medical software for Windows, and many other companies around the world have gone into an endless reboot.

Black humor, but Mcafee is the first antivirus to officially recognize Windows as a virus.
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"Treatment" of antivirus:

Option 1: Reboot to safe mode, rename mcshield.exe, reboot, run Virus Console, Tools -> Rollback DAT, rename back mcshield, reboot.

Option 2: Instead of renaming - in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ services \ McShield \ Start = 4, rollback in the same way.

The official fix from McAffee is expected. The official fix (and it’s not too lazy to write 5 pages when there are four lines needed? See below) ... Update 5959 is already laid out, within a few hours they promise that it will spread and fix. However, it will still have to be treated with your hands, it seems, since an endless reboot will probably not give you an update.

A brief retelling of 5 pages of the official "treatment":

1. Download extra.dat ;
2. Reboot into safe mode;
3. Copy extra.dat to c: / program files / common files / mcafee / engine;
4. Reboot.

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