Re: Microsoft Antivirus Compatibility with McAfee 8.0i
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 04/30/05
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:37:00 -0400
From: "radarnav12" <radarnav12@discussions.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.
I would say that using McAfee Enterprise v8.0i is a good idea. v4.5.1 SP1 was great on
Win9x/ME platforms and Enterprise v7.x on Win2K/WinXP as well (albeit, you should have been
using v7.1E). However, MS AS is a Beta product and should NOT be used on a production
platform.
So leave VirusScan v8.0i alone and dump MS Anti Spyware.
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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