[Jason08]

Hi all,
Over the last few months, I have noticed images on the Internet being replaced by a McAfee image. At first, I thought maybe those pictures contained something bad (malware), but over the last 2-3 weeks, it seems to be taking over the Internet! I have had McAfee for years on this computer, but what I don't understand, images that have been displayed before now are getting blocked by it. It seems like at the rate this is going, in a month, I wouldn't be surprised to take a screenshot of something online and save it to my computer and McAfee would block it. I have seen these blocked images in multiple places on TSG, and like I said, it seems to be everywhere now. It seems hard to go to a website and not see at least 1 image blocked by it. More images are getting blocked by it, and although sometimes I have seen images that were blocked when I first noticed it, I think there are more getting blocked than becoming unblocked. If this is not malware related, is there a way I can unblock them? It didn't use to happen prior to about 4 months ago, so but I haven't seen anything in the Security Center that would explain this.

Thanks, Jason

[Elvandil]

What about McAfee's settings? Do you have any McAfee software installed? If so, what?

If it is blocking images, it has to be either running or has installed an add-on into the browser. Check the browser add-ons and see if McAfee shows up in the Toolbar Cop.

[Jason08]

I download that, but the only thing I saw about McAfee in the Toolbar cop is the …agent.exe to run at start-up, but I think that is the security center. I have McAfee anti-virus and firewall, plus the things that are included under the anti-virus. Is it possible it could just be an automatic thing that came with the last McAfee security update?

[Elvandil]

If it isn't something added to the browsers, I'd suspect that it must be in the firewall settings for ad blocking, or possibly Flash or script blocking if you have those.
I've seen references to the Web Browsing, Advanced page in McAfee settings.

[Phantom010]

Only thing I can tell you is to check your settings. Disable a few unnecessary features. McAfee is overkilling it for nothing!

[Jason08]

The only thing I see in it that seems like it could be it is the Script Scanning protection. It says it protects against scripts from Trojans, and monitors for suspect activitiy.

[Jason08]

I disabled that, but so far 3-4 or 4-5 that were being blocked remained blocked.

[Jason08]

bump

[Jason08]

bump

[perfume]

Dear Jason08,
one thing that pops up is when i was an avid fan and using McAfee Security Center, McAfee Privacy Service had a feature to 'Block Ads'. Go into your settings and un-check it. Hope it helps. I have heard of this kind of image-blocking after a major download for updating McAfee!

[perfume]

Dear Jason08,
I think we've hit payload! I just visited the McAfee forums and this link should pull you out of the pit! http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/showthread.php?p=496921

[Jason08]

Thanks for pointing me to that. I've disabled the Image filtering, so hopefully it will work.
I think it's working.

[perfume]

Dear Jason08,
Happy to see you happy!