Oops, e-mail security vendor McAfee spills 1400 private names
Recipients asked to delete the leaked data
In a story just dripping with irony, e-mail security vendor, McAfee, has accidentally sent the contact details of more than 1400 conference attendees in a spreadsheet attached to a thank you message.
On July 17, McAfee held a security conference at the Sydney Convention Centre. The event was well attended by about 800 guests. But in e-mail a week later thanking people for attending, McAfee added a spreadsheet containing names, numbers, e-mail addresses, employment details and even dietary requirements of 1408 people.
Just remember kids, using McAfee is the same as asking for bad things to happen to you.
MCAfee is a completely fraudulent and criminal business, based on threating the customers and forcing them to pay. The protection of their computers is their least interest. Everybody knows that MCAfee (along with Norton) is totally bloated, extremely slow, corrupted, full of false positives, and anyway it does not protect the user for 100%. Eventually the computers with MCAfee installed are getting inoperable and you need to reinstall everything from scratch. MCafee is also known for charging the users on a year-based subscription without their knowledge. MCafee support is very hard to reach and they also want money for that. For software vendors, it’s impossible to contact MCAfee if their antivirus crap started to detect their innocent software. Just look at this ridiculous form – and the terms they offer (no any guarantees and responsibility) http://www.mcafee.com/us/threat_center/dispute/dispute_form.aspit’s a horrible form asking all possible and impossible things like KGB bastards. And 4-6 WEEKS responce time!!!! Is is OK for antiviruses with a daily updates???What they write there: . “If all the information you provide in the form is correct and complete, you should expect to hear back from our investigators in 4 to 6 weeks. If the information on the form is not complete or if we consider the claim to not be genuine, we will not investigate the request”.MCAfee Site Advisor also sucks, it’s just a funny crap and nothing useful, because the ratings are based on a posts by MCafee online bots, black competitors and paranoid idiots. nobody sane will ever post there. Also I know that they sell their “MCafee secure website” ratings for some bucks per year to anybody including spyware vendors. BEWARE of this absolutely criminal and fraudulent MCAfee crap!!!