Wednesday, October 14, 2009

McAfee web site hacked - Oct 14 2009

Oct 14 2009 Breaking news!!
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We had several computers in our work place complaining problems with McAfee virus scanner and possibly McAfee virus scanner being taken over by malicious code. It looks like McAfee web site is totally hacked as of this writing:

Go to: http://us.mcafee.com/

OR


http://www.mcafee.com/

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Not Implemented  (501)

The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable or no longer exists.
Please check the URL again or look below for help.

What are you looking for at McAfee?
McAfee Homepage
McAfee Service Information
Support
Return to the Previous Page
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Go to: http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp

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Execute Permission Denied
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And so on..none of the links work! Another hacking work?

The company that hopes to keep us safe is probably not safe itself? You let us know!

1 comment:

DJKJ said...

They seem to have fixed it now. But root cause yet to be found out.