On: McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide

[mrcharles]

I wonder if the value of the total things stopped by McAfee, in all its time, outweighs the purported damage of this incident.

I'm thinking no.

[orborde → mrcharles]

On what basis do you say no? This is a single large, noticeable incident, but that doesn't mean that it outweighs millions of tiny ones prevented.