Up to 500 million people would install McCafee products onto their machines since 1999.
Those McCafee products had 466 known vulnerabilities, including ones that allowed remote file access and remote arbitrary code execution.
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Those McCafee products had 466 known vulnerabilities, including ones that allowed remote file access and remote arbitrary code execution.
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This one allowed remote file access from third parties to hundreds of millions of machines two months before 9/11
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This one allowed arbitrary code execution on hundreds of millions of machines the year WikiLeaks was formed.
cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2006-6…
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Antivirus products typically need kernel-level access to operate fully.
Once you get the kernel, you have raw insights into nearly every executable activity of an entire machine.
Once you get the kernel, you have raw insights into nearly every executable activity of an entire machine.
Antivirus products are a great way to deliver an intentional weakness in a patch update for third parties to later utilize to get incredible access to any number of machines throughout the world.
I'd be very concerned about what McCafee knew about such arrangements if I were the Biden administration.
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