McAfee is turned off

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Bob Bedell

Can anyone tell me why when Microsoft's Antispyware
program runs, it turns off my antivirus software? Is
there any way to have it turn back on, automatically?
Thanks.
 
This should not be happening. Are you behind a firewall?

If you shut down Microsoft Antispyware via right clicking on the System tray
Icon and choosing shut down--can you start McAfee?

I would recommend getting it going, updating definitions, and doing a full
scan, before troubleshooting further--the antivirus protection is a higher
priority than antispyware.

If you cannot get it started, you could go to Mcafee's site and do an online
scan.

See "free scan" towards the bottom of this page:
http://us.mcafee.com/root/catalog.asp
 
Check for a patch from McAfee - someone in these ng's was saying there is a
McAfee patch that fixes a few problems between McAfee and MSAS.

JohnF.
 
JohnF. said:
Check for a patch from McAfee - someone in these ng's was saying there is
a McAfee patch that fixes a few problems between McAfee and MSAS.
Click to expand...

I'd love to hear more about this supposed patch. I have the URL of a patch
for McAfee Enterprise 8 which was mentioned in relation to an issue with
..NET applications, but there's no information linking this patch to
Microsoft Antispyware or the predecessor Giant product which I've spotted.
 
That's what I remember as well.

But let's look at it carefully. The original question was what did
Microsoft Antispyware do to Windows Update?

And, now that I think of it--there have been several recent threads here
about interference with update processes of various kinds, right?

And, the answer, in the end, was that it wasn't Microsoft Antispyware that
was at fault--it was the antivirus, and the antivirus vendor had a patch.

This is parallel to the other thread. The question was what had Microsoft
Antispyware done to VB.NET, and it turned out that it was the antivirus
vendor that had done in VB.NET, and the antivirus vendor had a patch (same
vendor :))

So--neither patch has anything to do with Microsoft Antispyware, per
se--they both happen to fix issues that a given poster had originally blamed
on Microsoft Antispyware.

Do you agree that is how this looks--reading back? I don't think there's a
"patch" for issues with Microsoft Antispyware--but there are patches for
some issues with other apps with at least this particular antivirus vendor.
 
Uninstall McAfee, throw away the disk and thank Uncle
Bill for finally releasing a product that no other vendor
could get right. AntiSpyware that works...and antivirus?
what do you think the spyware is? It is from a virus and
it's mission is to create more viruses on your machine.
Microsoft is finally cleaning the mess and the other
products will have no need in the near future...Rock On.
 
Microsoft isn't cleaning viruses with this product. Let's not confuse
people--this product DOES NOT supplant a firewall or an antivirus app.

If your antivirus app is "down"--my first suggestion is that you explore
whether this is due to a virus--it may not be, but that is not an uncommon
cause.
 
Bill,

You are too thorough - I will have to agree, it does look like MSAS gets the
blame when problems pop up that are probably already there before MSAS was
installed. I stopped using McAfee 10 years ago so I couldn't say one way or
another but I do know that when folks get around to installing other patches
and updates in this mad dash to finally get things cleaned up, several apps
are going to start barking and not just because of MSAS. However, at least
we can say if it's possible, the buck stops here!

JohnF.
 
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