According to rival Symantec, McAfee antivirus update problems are not over yet.
At a media meeting dubbed “Next @ Norton” today, the Mountain View, Calif.-based security company warned that McAfee’s faulty signature update fiasco might happen again despite using cloud technologies to mitigate future risks.
“They say they are going to use the cloud to stop from ever happening again. And that concerns me a little,” explains Kevin Haley, product manager of Symantec’s Technology and Response group, comparing McAfee’s cloud solution to a warehouse!
Symantec faults McAfee “cloud” response
For Haley, McAfee will still be using “rushed out” signatures, but this time, it’s sitting in the cloud and will get faster to the user.
“It doesn’t do anything to mitigate false positives. In fact, probably, it’s going to do the opposite,” adds the Symantec executive who contends that this could not happen with Norton Antivirus.
“There are some critical systems files that if removed are going to cause something bad. And if anytime we have the urge of removing them, there’s a fail-safe mechanism in the [Norton] product that will not allow it to be removed.”
In the video below, the Symantec executive found McAfee explanation for the fiasco lousy and suggests his version of what he thinks “really happened:”
