McAfee Auto Dialing in Win98SE

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Kris Kirk

Hi,

I just installed McAfee Virus Scan on my Windows 98SE computer. Now
when Windows starts, it sometimes tries to connect to the internet
automatically. I've disabled the Auto Updates in McAfee and it's still
doing it.

When I run MSCONFIG, I see 4 things that relate to McAfee in the
Startup tab:

VSOCheckTask
VirusScan Online
MCAgentExe
MCUpdateExe

Is one of them causing the dialing and if so can I remove any of them
without causing problems to McAfee?

I've also installed this on my computer with XP and I haven't had the
auto-dial problem on that. Is this a Windows 98 specific problem?

Thanks,
Chris
 
It probably is.

Dave



| Hi,
|
| I just installed McAfee Virus Scan on my Windows 98SE computer. Now
| when Windows starts, it sometimes tries to connect to the internet
| automatically. I've disabled the Auto Updates in McAfee and it's still
| doing it.
|
| When I run MSCONFIG, I see 4 things that relate to McAfee in the
| Startup tab:
|
| VSOCheckTask
| VirusScan Online
| MCAgentExe
| MCUpdateExe
|
| Is one of them causing the dialing and if so can I remove any of them
| without causing problems to McAfee?
|
| I've also installed this on my computer with XP and I haven't had the
| auto-dial problem on that. Is this a Windows 98 specific problem?
|
| Thanks,
| Chris
 
Kris Kirk said:
Hi,

I just installed McAfee Virus Scan on my Windows 98SE computer. Now
when Windows starts, it sometimes tries to connect to the internet
automatically. I've disabled the Auto Updates in McAfee and it's still
doing it.

When I run MSCONFIG, I see 4 things that relate to McAfee in the
Startup tab:

VSOCheckTask
VirusScan Online
MCAgentExe
MCUpdateExe
Click to expand...

Chris, I recently posted my solution to this - there's a very long thread on
the mcafee discussion site for the bulk of last year. I'm talking mcafee 8
here by the way.

Basically, MCInfo and McUpdate are the culprits, however, Mcafee will throw
a wobbly if they aren't present in their expected places, in program
files\agent and \shared I think. My solution is to rename the existing
programs to something else, like XMcinfo, then put some simple dummy program
that doesn't do anything into their place so they get checked for existence.
You could use a simple DOS program such as mem.exe and set it to run
minimised and close on exit. Did this down my mum's house, and there's been
no dialup popping up, and yet the mcafee is still running, and you can still
manually upgrade.

Geoff.
 
Geoff Phillips said:
Basically, MCInfo and McUpdate are the culprits, however, Mcafee will throw
a wobbly if they aren't present in their expected places, in program
files\agent and \shared I think. My solution is to rename the existing
programs to something else, like XMcinfo, then put some simple dummy program
that doesn't do anything into their place so they get checked for existence.
You could use a simple DOS program such as mem.exe and set it to run
minimised and close on exit. Did this down my mum's house, and there's been
no dialup popping up, and yet the mcafee is still running, and you can still
manually upgrade.
Click to expand...

Thanks for that. Could the update process itself (when doing a manual
update) replace the dummy MCUpdate exe? Or is this rarely updated?

Kris
 
Kris Kirk said:
"Geoff Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message
Click to expand...
Thanks for that. Could the update process itself (when doing a manual
update) replace the dummy MCUpdate exe? Or is this rarely updated?

Kris
Click to expand...

That's a good point actually Kris, which I had not considered, I'll have to
watch for that myself. I think that mostly it's the DAT files that get
upgraded.

Geoff.
 
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