Microsoft Antivirus Compatibility with McAfee 8.0i

From: radarnav12 (radarnav12_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/30/05 

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:08:02 -0700

For the past year or so, my organization has been trying different solutions
to the spyware/adware/malware problem, and up until recently Microsoft
Antispyware beta had peacefully coexisted with Spybot S&D's Teatimer,
Ad-Aware, Windows XP SP2 firewall, and McAfee 4.5.1 and McAfee 7.0
Enterprise. Then we tried upgrading some of our computers to McAfee 8.0i.

Before somebody tells me how terrible McAfee AV is and how great Norton AV
is, don't bother. We had a couple of off site departments using Norton, and
it didn't peacefully coexist with anything. And, it was helpless against most
of the trojans that spread malware. We might consider other solutions, but
Norton doesn't hold a candle to other antispyware/antivirus products.

My guess is we have set McAfee's unwanted products settings a little too
high, and McAfee has taken over and disabled the Real-time protection
settings of Microsoft Antispyware. It is a shame we can't have them both
running at the same time, because even though Microsoft's spyware detection
is the best out there (way better than McAfee's), no single product is 100%
effective against spyware, and we would like to keep two or three antispyware
products running simultaneously.

What I would like to know is if anyone has already figured out what
PARTICULAR settings in McAfee 8.0i need to be disabled to allow Microsoft
Antispyware Real-time protection to work. Of course, this has to be done
without compromising McAfee's superior antivirus protection. If necessary,
I'll figure this out on my own and come back to share my findings, but I'd
rather not have to reinvent the wheel if somebody else has already done it.

Relevant Pages

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