Showing posts with label MAC users. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MAC users. Show all posts

Sunday, February 17, 2013

McAfee jeopardized the safety of MAC users


Administrator at McAfee accidentally withdrew digital key, which allows certification of desktop applications based on Apple OS X. Because of this, a huge number of consumers have difficulty installing or updating anti-virus products for Mac.

McAfee employees say they never lose control of special certificates, which are used to confirm that users are using the legitimate releases. Key revocation date - February 6, 2013. This means that for a week consumers were not able to confirm they bought McAfee-software for Mac.

"We were just told that we must accept unverified certificates until they sort out their problems," - says one IT-manager of a large company, who requested anonymity. "In fact, they offer us their own themselves to the threat."