McAfee will release a fix this week for a bug in its SaaS for Total Protection anti-malware service that scammers were using to distribute spam, the company said today.
The problem came to light after McAfee customers reported in blog posts and forum sites that spammers were using a hole in McAfee's RumorServer relay service to secretly send spam from their machines. The customers said they noticed the problem after their e-mails were blocked by e-mail providers and their IP addresses appeared on blacklists.
The problem is isolated to the SaaS Total Protection service, according to David Marcus, director of security research at McAfee Labs. There is no evidence that any customer data has been lost or compromised as a result of the problem, he said.
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