Stories, and bit rot, from the IT Support Trenches
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: Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …
Updated the “AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning” With details of SQL Server 2008 and R2 best practices. I plan to Read More …
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 Read More …
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. Read More …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …