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McAfee anti-virus update damages NT 4.0 systems

A number of Windows NT 4.0 users who updated Network Associate's McAfee VirusScan/Netshield 4.
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A number of Windows NT 4.0 users who updated Network Associate's McAfee VirusScan/Netshield 4.0.2 using the 4120/4110 SuperDat utility were greeted with an ominous error message upon rebooting: "Operating System Not Found." The 4120/4110 SuperDat upgrade had in fact damaged the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the NT File System (NTFS) partition. Full story. -- Eugene Woodbury, BugNet

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