From 79fafe2f44f5e31522dd93013950474342bfdfb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luxagraf Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:48:55 -0500 Subject: archived all the stuff from freelancing for wired --- .../Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/symantec.txt | 18 ------------------ 1 file changed, 18 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/symantec.txt (limited to 'published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/symantec.txt') diff --git a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/symantec.txt b/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/symantec.txt deleted file mode 100644 index eef0280..0000000 --- a/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.21.07/Tue/symantec.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -Symantec, makers of the Norton Anti-virus software created a massive SNAFU for Chinese users when an update mistakenly identified two critical system files in the Simplified Chinese edition of Windows XP Service Pack 2 as Trojan horses. - -The two files, netapi32.dll and lsasrv.dll, were erroneously quarantined by the anti-virus software leaving users with a crippled installation of Windows. Rebooting the affected PCs caused Windows to fail on start-up and display the dreaded [blue screen of death][1]. - -Symantec uploaded a revised update some 13 and a half hours later, but by then it was too late for users who had already updated and restarted. - -By quarantining critical system files Symantec effectively rendered perhaps as many as a million, if China's state-sponsored Xinhau News Agency is to be believed (other reports range from 7,000 to several hundred thousand), Windows installations completely useless. - -Affected users will need to install new copies of the two .dll files. - -To compound matters, Symantec, in addition to their slow-as-molasses response, has yet to post any real notice of the problem on its site. - -Symantec did post a support document on its Chinese-language site that outlines how to use the Windows XP installation CD to re-install the files, but that document is buried deep in the site and Symantec homepage has no information on the issue at all. - -[via [Computer World][2]] - -[2]: http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020058&intsrc=hm_list "Chinese PC users still contending with Symantec signature foul-up" -[1]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos30/ "BSOD Through the Ages" \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2