Good news: Wise people have decided to keep using Sophos rather than McAfee, so I’ll continue checking out McAfee, but in the meantime the network will be secured by Sophos. More about Sophos Antivirus on this web log | More about McAfee on this web log
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]