[Dalton7821]

Due to recent economic "belt tightening", I am unfortunately stuck with whatever anti-virus suite my ISP shoves at me. Recently, AT&T switched me from Norton to McAfee. (possible corporate "belt tightening") I was satisfied with Norton and had 2 months left under activation key that came with my computer but decided to give McAfee a shot. Now Mcafee seems to delete files I know are false positives without confirming. I have found no control function to change alert settings or a way to add trusted programs or an ignore list. Does anyone know of a "work around" or a tool/utility to force ignore a file or folder? I imagine anyone clever enough to code or develope such a tool would just stay away from such a handcuffed situation as McAfee 2009, but I can hope.


Mcafee 2009 Installed Products
SECURITY CENTER
Version:8.1
Build:8.1.175
AffId:679
Language: en-us
Last Update:2/17/2009
VIRUS SCAN
Version:12.1
Build:12.1.111
AffId:679
Language:en-us
Last Update:4/9/2009
DAT Version:5579.0000
DAT Creation Date:4/9/2009
Engine Version:5301.4018

[midders]

Uninstall McAfee and download Avira; it's free, and if you write a small batch file to delete the avnotify.exe file and schedule it to run just before the update job, you don't even get the nag screen :-)

Sláinte

midders

[LauraMJ]

Hi,

You are not stuck with whatever anti-virus suite your ISP shoves at you. Uninstall it, tell them you don't want it, then go get one of the many free, excellent anti-virus programs out there that also give you free virus definition updates.

Avira
AVG Free
Avast
BitDefender


Just to name a couple right off hand.

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[hewee]

Too many good free ones you can get that are not the free ones from your ISP.

Free ones from you ISP can be good but they can be bad if your ISP changes the free AV then you have to also.
Plus they are branded so if you get another ISP it will no longer update so your have to get another AV. I think even if the other ISP had the very same free AV it has to be there branded copy so you would still need to take off the same AV program and install the same program from your new ISP.
This is all a pain so is the reason I never install anything from my ISP.

[Dalton7821]

The reason I am reluctant to go the freeware route is the convenience of the full suite. (or extent of my laziness) Four years ago I had Avast and it wasn't bad, I had a few threats get by but overall nice. The problem is I'll end up with a hodge podge of security programs, anti-virus, spyware, firewall and system utils/tools. Is there a comprehensive suite available?

[lunarlander]

Another way of looking at that hodge podge is calling it best of breed, which security suites don't have.