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McAfee disables The Bat, McAfee detects "virus" in The Bat
 
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When I started my computer this morning, The BAT shortcut was no longer working. I tried to repair The Bat via the installation programme but the repair failed. While doing so, a window popped up, alerting me that McAfee has detected and blocked a virus: W32/IRCbot.gen.z bat

Does anybody else experience the same problem? I did a quick search on the internet and came across postings describing that McAfee has found the same virus in the "Spotify" programme, disabling it too. Thanks for any feedback.
 
 
 
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Heard similar stories on tbudl. The new update of mcafee is giving false positives again.
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I wasn't aware of tbudl, so many thanks for this hint. I guess all I'll need to is to be patient and wait for McAfee to rectify their virus definitions...
 
 
 
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McAfee erases the Bat! and prevents from restoring it on my PC: how can we get rid of this Mcafee bug????
TECH SUPPORT PLEASE HELP US!
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Yes I had the same thing when starting TB late last evening.

Spent several hours with McAfee online chat support today but they could not rectify; I had to give up.

You can sometimes get TB running again if you disable everything in McAfee, then do a Bat re-install. I did this to make an up to date backup of the data. Obviously you cannot go online whilst doing this  :)

I have had to resort to Windows Mail for the moment, in the hope for an update that will no longer regard the exe file as a virus. I have also been considering uninstalling McAfee and using another security suite.

Peter
Edited: Peter Phelan - 22 May 2009 19:42:07
 
 
 
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A McAfee software update has been automatically installed on my computer and The Bat! is now working properly on my computer again. I hope you all can now use the excellent Bat without problems again.
 
 
 
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