Why so many restarts? Are they all necessary?

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Karl Shaw

Hi,

Just installed Mcafee Virus Scanner Pro v.8 and I was astonished at the
amount of times it asked me to restart my system. I counted 6 times on
install and once or twice on update. Why is it such a high number? Also,
after I do a virus update, is there any way to install them without
restarting?

Cheers,

Karl.
 
Hi,

Just installed Mcafee Virus Scanner Pro v.8 and I was astonished at the
amount of times it asked me to restart my system. I counted 6 times on
install and once or twice on update. Why is it such a high number? Also,
after I do a virus update, is there any way to install them without
restarting?
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This is normally down to registering dll's etc, a restart after an update
is normally indicative of an engine update, or the OAS (On Access Scanner)
either not stopping correctly or failing to allow the new def files to
load
 
This is normally down to registering dll's etc, a restart after an update
is normally indicative of an engine update, or the OAS (On Access Scanner)
either not stopping correctly or failing to allow the new def files to
load
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As an after thought you can probably restart the scan engine via command
prompt, however if it really wants a restart just do it.
 
Karl Shaw said:
Hi,

Just installed Mcafee Virus Scanner Pro v.8 and I was astonished at the
amount of times it asked me to restart my system. I counted 6 times on
install and once or twice on update. Why is it such a high number? Also,
after I do a virus update, is there any way to install them without
restarting?
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.... I had a similar problem with McAfee v6.0 - about every other update I
would be asked to reboot but after I installed another stick of RAM(was
running 256meg then increased it to 512 on a XP box) it rarely happened
anymore and now I am running v8.0 with only a rare restart.
 
... I had a similar problem with McAfee v6.0 - about every other update I
would be asked to reboot but after I installed another stick of RAM(was
running 256meg then increased it to 512 on a XP box) it rarely happened
anymore and now I am running v8.0 with only a rare restart.
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bizarre - I'd think that this is probably more likely to McAfee
writing better software, than just the simple ram upgrade - that
doesn't really make sense. If it needs to reset, then it needs to
reset, no matter how much RAM you have installed. I can't see a
situation where a reset would not be necessary if you have more than a
certain amount of RAM.
 
Resets only are needed when the main program has been updated not for dats.
notwithstanding that the mcafee forums noted that several users had
rebooting issues with certain dat files and we never really solved why. It
appears to have receeded in occurrences recently.

Peace
 
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