Many McAfee VirusScan Enterprise consumers, who are using Windows XP SP3, had their svchost. exe flagged as malicious.

The most appalling disclosure was exposed by Ed Bott at ZDNet, stating that McAfee has confessed to its clients that it followed inferior quality guarantee processes in this matter.

Particularly, the release was not tested on Windows XP SP3, the configuration on which it messed up the system. It's hard to imagine of a worse single configuration to leave out. Late last night McAfee gave its confirmation on the report.

This kind of thing has happened in the previous times as well, and the hazard of it augments all the time. The characteristic of malware has forced AV sellers to push out ever more repeated description updates, to the point where Symantec's pulse updates come out within five to 15 minutes.

Like the majority security products, McAfee's scan also showed signs of virus. Three definite editions of svchost. exe under XP SP3 had been affected, and McAfee provides the MD5 confusions. It seems Microsoft alters this file in updates without making any changes to either the size or file adaptation.