McAfee antivirus update cripples Windows XP

[john877]

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3221254

[mostdom]

Typical I suppose.

I never trusted McAfee after the saga of getting a virus installed with their free AV downloads which killed the AV software before it even got installed. Where's my barg pole!
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HERE LIES PND May it rest in peace.
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[PaulB2005]

Instructions for dealing with the problem are here

Sadly many of the Google results for this information have been poisoned already. The link above is direct to McAfee website.

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