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Microsoft has the Blues, McAfee can’t take a joke

November 14, 2006 by in Geeky with 6 Comments

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It’s not often anyone can write that Microsoft has a sense of humor, but for once they do. The screen saver BlueScreen v3.2 (figures it took Microsoft until version 3.2), a result of Microsofts acquisition of Sysinternals, is designed to poke fun Redmond’s software-coding skills. Apparently McAfee can’t take a joke.

McAfee, is actively preventing users from downloading the software. The company’s security research team told ZDNet UK this week: “This is not a false positive. We are intentionally detecting this as Joke.Bluescreen.c, as it’s meant to scare people.”

Come on McAfee, its a joke. What’s next? An aversion to flying toast?

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  • Jeffrey

    that’s the last thing you would want burned into your brand new LCD :)

  • Matt W

    LCD doesnt suffer from burn in….that would be plasma. Or pre-SVGA CRTs.

    To make the screen saver more effective, you should only be able to exit the screen saver by giving the 3 finger salute. How would that be for a joke. The unsuspecting user wouldnt think it was a screen saver, since moving the mouse wouldnt take it away.

    McAfee hasnt been kind (performance-wise) to PCs for years, why should they be concerned about a simple screen saver. Maybe the McAfee programmers should have to use workstations that run their craptastic software on a daily basis.

  • MrC

    I actually installed this like a week ago. It’s so cool….I wonder what my roommate will think if he suddenly saw a “new” screensaver!

  • http://www.pjllobell.com PVL

    Apparently it doesn’t react to mouse movement. Scared the crap outta me for a second, I thought my computer actually bluescreened until I hit space.

  • Jerry

    McAfee -is- a joke. Let’s here it for AVG….

  • Jeffrey

    yeah… that’s what I mean Plasma…

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