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Featured, News - Thursday, April 22, 2010 17:00 - 4 Comments
Now CommBank hit by McAfee bug
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the latest Australian organisation to confirm it was hit today by the disastrous bug in McAfee’s security software which has also taken down a number of Coles stores and knocked out 25 percent of Virgin Mobile’s PCs.
An update to McAfee’s security suite released on Wednesday hit PCs with Windows XP Service Pack 3, causing network outages or constant rebooting. The problem has since been rectified, but large organisations around Australia are still dealing with the fallout.
A Commonwealth Bank spokesperson told Delimiter this afternoon there were no ATMs affected by the outage, but a number of staff had not been able to login to their PCs.
The bank’s IT department had been working since “the early hours of this morning” to fix the impacted PCs, with the priority being minimalisation of disruption to customers. The bank expects to have worked through the problems by the end of the day. “In terms of numbers it’s minimal,” the spokesperson said, with the branch network not being affected.








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