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
Continue readingA user reported the following issue on Windows 7: As it turns out, the user had deleted the McAfee Anti-virus
Continue readingThe sort of checks you might want to put into a “PC Health Check” script, for anti-virus program healthiness is
Continue readingCA eTrust has a utility called “SigCheck.exe”. It’s purpose is to display the current version of the eTrust anti-virus definition
Continue readingasutil.exe Imports subnet information into the ITM Server database. compver.exe Displays the version of all installed components. eavdisc.exe Causes a
Continue readingUpdated the “AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning” With details of SQL Server 2008 and R2
Continue readingWell, if you didn’t receive emails with viruii attached, or surf to “dubious” websites, you wouldn’t get infected. For the
Continue readingIt was an Ed Bott article which got me to thinking, “just how many anti-virus false positives have I dealt
Continue readingWe had a problem with one of our SMS servers today, it was not processing DDR records. All 19,000+ of
Continue readingComputer Associates used to recommend excluding particular processes and directories from eTrust anti-virus scanning. This, I found, was very important
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