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I changed the Auto Update Feature.
It defaults to Weekly, but I thought it’d be nice to set it to When Computer Is Idle.
Secondly, I activated the On Demand Scanning, since I think that that’s what an antivirus program should be doing.
Unfortunately I already witnessed the first Outlook 2003 crashes since McAfee installation.
It appeared that McAfee installed a plugin for email scanning, but it can cause Outlook to hang upon start.
When closed with force, Outlook then asked if I wanted to disable this McAfee plugin.
Although my instinct told me to disable it, I chose to give it one more try and… Guess what?
It worked the second time!
Brrrrr!
I told the local users to keep their eyes open and be very alert. Especially regarding computer stability (or the possible absence of stability).
More about Sophos Antivirus on this web log | More about McAfee on this web log

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I was quite happily surprised to see that McAfee features detection and auto uninstallation of Sophos Antivirus (clever!).
Unfortunately it didn’t see Sophos Remote Update, so after waiting for 10 minutes for the McAfee Full System Scan (there’s plenty of minutes in one hour!) Sophos Remote Updates reinstalled the SAV that McAfee uninstalled.

It appears to me that it must be quite hard to keep up the counter espionage and I concluded that it’s better to keep focussed on improving your own products rather than following your competitors, so you can auto uninstall their products.

Sophos doesn’t have detection of competitive (however never equalled) software and for a split second I thought that was a bad thing, but my latest experience showed me that it’s better to do your own thing and not mess with other things.

My statement: Auto detection and uninstallation of competitive software is a bad thing.

It is quite difficult to try this software (McAfee) unprejudiced.
But then again: Maybe the 30% performance loss has something to do with that.
And the first McAfee Auto Update failed. The PC is scanning and it’s too slow for me to go and find out why it failed.
More about Sophos Antivirus on this web log | More about McAfee on this web log

Today I am having an encounter of with the latest McAfee 7.1 Active Virus Scan Suite.
We have a customer who made the mistake decided to replace their Sophos Antivirus with McAfee w o r l d w i d e.
Very interesting to see that it features auto uninstallation of Sophos Antivirus.
Let’s see if it also uninstalls Sophos Remote Update and if I’ll be happy afterwards…
I’ll keep you posted.
More about Sophos Antivirus on this web log | More about McAfee on this web log

BTW: Afgelopen zondag 25 april 2004 21:30 Kill Bill Volume 2 gezien in Pathé De Munt met Willem en Natalia.
Recensie volgt nog. Film is super; een absolute aanrader.
Heb je deel 1 nog niet gezien? Schaam je dan en doe er iets an!