McAfee Update Causing Tens of Thousands of Spontaneously Broken Computers

McAfee pushed out a firmware update for its anti-virus software that's wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of Windows XP computers. Looks like some bad coding triggers the deletion of a certain file that triggers a false positive in McAfee, which in turn snowballs into a huge mess of constant, unstoppable restarting and broken network functionality.

Here's the statement McAfee sent to Engadget:

McAfee is aware that a number of customers have incurred a false
positive error due to incorrect...