Microsoft has the Blues, McAfee can’t take a joke
15th Nov 2006, 04:33 GMT
It’s not often anyone can write that Microsoft has a sense of humor, but for once they do. The screen saver BlueScreen v3.2 (figures it took Microsoft until version 3.2), a result of Microsofts acquisition of Sysinternals, is designed to poke fun Redmond’s software-coding skills. Apparently McAfee can’t take a joke. McAfee, is actively preventing users from downloading the software. The company’s security research team told ZDNet UK this week: “This is not a false positive. We are intentionally detecting this as Joke.Bluescreen.c, as it’s meant to scare people.” Come on McAfee, its a joke. What’s next? An aversion to flying toast? Read More [via]
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