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Updating McAfee VirusScan Enterprise DAT files manually.

Posted onMay 4, 2016

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 …

CategoriesSecurityTagsAnti-virus, McAfee

Can’t find script engine “VBScript” for script

Posted onJanuary 5, 20131 Comment

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 …

CategoriesSoftwareTagsAnti-virus, McAfee

What to put in a script to check anti-virus program healthiness

Posted onJuly 31, 2012October 21, 2020

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 …

CategoriesSoftwareTagsAnti-virus

The eTrust SigCheck.exe utility

Posted onJuly 30, 2012October 21, 2020

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 …

CategoriesSoftwareTagsAnti-virus, eTrust

eTrust command line utilities

Posted onJuly 30, 2012October 21, 2020

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 …

CategoriesSoftwareTagsAnti-virus, eTrust

AV virus exclusion post update, and other post updates.

Posted onNovember 16, 2010March 23, 2021

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 …

CategoriesWisefaqTagsAnti-virus

How to select a good anti-virus product

Posted onJune 30, 2010October 26, 20204 Comments

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 …

CategoriesHow To, SoftwareTagsAnti-virus, eTrust, McAfee, microsoft, Software

Anti-virus False Positives – been a few

Posted onMay 17, 2010May 16, 20101 Comment

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 …

CategoriesIt's A Bug, SecurityTagsAnti-virus, Security

SMS 2003 Server running slow, check your AV exclusions.

Posted onNovember 26, 2009November 18, 2021

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 …

CategoriesHow To, WindowsTagsAnti-virus, eTrust, SMS

eTrust AntiVirus, and directories / processes you should exclude from scanning.

Posted onSeptember 28, 2009November 24, 2021

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 …

CategoriesHow To, SoftwareTagsAnti-virus, eTrust, Exchange, SMS, SQL

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