Re: Microsoft Antivirus Compatibility with McAfee 8.0i

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/30/05 

Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:13:44 -0400

Any time you have 2 or 3 real time scanners running at the same time you
well may have conflicts. It has long been known that you should only run one
antivirus scanner because of this. Why would Anti Spyware scanners be any
different. I would run the one you feel most comfortable with in real time.
I would run the others "on demand" when necessary or on a schedule.

Just to prove it to you, set both SpyBot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware
(two of the best) to scan upon startup. It will bring your system to it
knees! 

-- 
Regards,
Richard Urban
aka   Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
"radarnav12" <radarnav12@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:DDA0FC5D-651C-4B10-B6AF-F1573E547374@microsoft.com...
> 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.

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