Re: Microsoft Antivirus Compatibility with McAfee 8.0i

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

Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 22:30:04 -0700

Now I have let myself get led off my original topic. That didn't take very
long, did it?

Anyway, since you all seem to want to talk about Norton vs. McAfee, let me
say that I agree with you about McAfee, but Mr. Lipman makes a good point
about Norton Ghost. I really liked their disk utilities for several years
after they bought Central Point's PC Tools, and I use Ghost all the time, but
my most recent experience with their antivirus product was not very inspiring.

Now, if I could just get someone who has used McAfee 8.0i Enterprise with
Microsoft or Giant Software's Antispyware product, maybe I could get an
answer to my original question. I suppose I'll have to tackle that question
on my own on Monday.

"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Rad
>
> McAfee anti-virus good.. McAfee firewall good.. McAfee anything else forget
> it.. Norton anything at all forget it..
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/user
>
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
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> "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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