In short, go to http://www.mcafee.com/apps/downloads/security-updates/security-updates.aspx and download the DAT file. The install switches are as follows: Which seems much easier than following McAfee's instructions here: How to manually update the…
A user reported the following issue on Windows 7: As it turns out, the user had deleted the McAfee Anti-virus program directory. No mean feat in itself. Which in turn…
The sort of checks you might want to put into a “PC Health Check” script, for anti-virus program healthiness is as follows CA eTrust vet.dat has a recent* modified/created date.…
CA eTrust has a utility called “SigCheck.exe”. It’s purpose is to display the current version of the eTrust anti-virus definition which is on the local PC. From a command line,…
asutil.exe Imports subnet information into the ITM Server database. compver.exe Displays the version of all installed components. eavdisc.exe Causes a “free election” discovery to occur on the local subnet. eAVreprt.exe…
Updated the “AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning” With details of SQL Server 2008 and R2 best practices. I plan to get around to rewriting this…
Well, if you didn’t receive emails with viruii attached, or surf to “dubious” websites, you wouldn’t get infected. For the rest of us, we would be looking at either Microsoft…
It was an Ed Bott article which got me to thinking, “just how many anti-virus false positives have I dealt with over the years?”. Six. A false positive is when…
We had a problem with one of our SMS servers today, it was not processing DDR records. All 19,000+ of them. After some investigation, a co-worker found it was a…
Computer Associates used to recommend excluding particular processes and directories from eTrust anti-virus scanning. This, I found, was very important with Microsoft SQL Server, as it would cause a significant…
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