McAfee kills SVCHost.exe

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Submitted by Kohenkatz on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @01:17PM

Kohenkatz writes "A McAfee Update today (DAT 5958) incorrectly identifies svchost.exe, a critical windows executable as a virus and tries to remove it, causing endless reboot loops."
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by Mushdot (943219) writes:

Trashed all our XP pc's at work this afternoon except for a few (includng me) who disabled the auto update. How did this one get past QA?

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