Re: Microsoft Antivirus Compatibility with McAfee 8.0i

From: radarnav12 ("radarnav12")
Date: 05/01/05 

Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:18:06 -0700

Thanks for the quick reply. You are correct in your assessment - two real
time scanners, virus or spyware, can be problematic. However, we ran Spybot
S&D's Teatimer and MS Antispyware side by side with no real problems, except
for having to respond to two sets of recommendations everytime you ran a
script.

The problem is Microsoft Antispyware is not an antivirus solution and, while
McAfee handles both viruses and spyware, its antispyware capabilities are not
on a par with Microsoft Antispyware. We would like to run McAfee for its
antivirus protection while allowing Microsoft Antispyware to scan for
spyware. The trick is figuring out what to turn off in McAfee to allow
Microsoft's real-time protection to function, and only turning off just
enough so that we can get the best of both products.

Interesting you should mention running Spybot and Ad-Aware together. On
those occasions when both have requested permission to scan after a reboot,
they have never actually run simultaneously. One will run after the other. In
the single instance where I manually ran both at the same time, the only
effect was that they both ran slower. On a slower machine, you could have a
resource problem, but its not unlike downloading multiple files at the same
time.

Thanks for your input. I would have gone to McAfee, but of course they
wouldn't really see this as much of a problem, and their knowledgebase is mum
on the issue.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> 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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