Security software and services company McAfee is set to release a patch Friday to fix a glitch that prevented some users of its privacy software from accessing auction site eBay. Ardi Kazarian, senior product manager for McAfee Internet Security, said the problem popped up a few weeks ago, after eBay apparently changed some of its home page elements that run in the JavaScript language. McAfee's Privacy Service software would occasionally misinterpret the JavaScript routine and block access to the page, Kazarian said. "It's just not looking at it correctly," she said.

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