But were any servers infected by viruses while this "feature" was running?
Maybe they are looking for a new marketing tagline?
"Our software will make you systems so unusable not even virii will touch them...."
An update to Kaspersky Labs' enterprise anti-virus software inadvertently slowed Windows servers to a crawl, the Russian net security firm has admitted. Kaspersky has pulled the misfiring update and promised a review of its testing procedures to determine why the potential problem was not spotted prior to the release of the …
kaspersky
sophos
symantec
mcafee
spot a running theme here? yup. multi thousand <currency> corporate subscription contracts have lead us to the final inevitable goal of garbage software produced buy the lowest bidder for maximum shareholder profit.
i don't think there is an admin, or tech alive that hasn't cursed any or all of these names repeatedly at some point. its more trouble to install their software than to metaphoricly bend over and pull your cheeks apart on an unprotected net connection.
multi million dollar powered fail.