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"For most of us, security software is a necessary evil: you install it and learn to live with the annoying pop-ups and \"update me!\" nags because you know that one day it will, er, delete important bits of Windows. That's what McAfee's software has been up to, anyway. An error in a virus definition file wrongly identified svchost.exe, an important Windows component, as malware. The result? Crashing and constantly rebooting Windows XP PCs all over the place. The good news is that it hasn't…"
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