Anyone affected by this?

Rio Grande Valley residents joined many other people across the United States whose anti-virus software knocked out their computers.

The McAfee anti-virus software sent out an update to their subscribers at 3 a.m. Wednesday.

The update targeted some Windows operating files as a virus instead of a regular file causing their computers not to work properly.

Many residents and businesses were affected.

Action 4 News learned that the Geek Squad at Best Buy is offering FREE updates that will correct the problem.

I made the mistake of subscribing to McAfee recently and had to remove it from the household computers. It is a memory hog and doesn't work very well. I decided to use the Microsoft free version instead and have been pleased. It is available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/products/mse.aspx

microsoft or avast. just about anything else should be ignored. maybe avg, but i haven't used it in a while.

MSE > AVG > Avast! > *

wow, cool story man. thanks for the heads up.

no prob dude hope it helps, i honestly don't even use a virus scan. as a matter of fact my computer is 6 years old and none of the latest viruses are compatible. lol