What do you think?

gtghmgtghm New
edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
Ok I did a clean install of XP, I did all of the normal driver install functions that you would do with a clean install.

I installed McAfee 7.0 and ran a scan.
It found that on a seperate partition in a saved email (.eml) file there was a virus I told it to delete it and it did...

I had not resoted the email files to outlook yet just did the scan.

So after that I figured the system was clean. Nothing was found on the OS partition as you would expect from a clean install...

I went into the schedule scan section of McAfee and tried to set up a scheduled scan for my system but it wouldn't work...

So after 4 straight days of struggling with McSucks online chat support the scheduler still won't function correctly.

I did as instructed by all of the morons that told me to uninstall and reinstall. Once before it installed the update files I tired to set up a scan and it worked but as soon as the new dats/scan engine updated everything to date the function nolonger worked and caused it to crash.

So I have done an online scan with Norton AV, Trend mocro and one other that I can't think of right now, all saying my system is clean...

I booted into safe mode with networking and ran the online scans that way too...

Since nothing was found after all that can I assume that my system is clean and that there is something wrong with the McAfee updater and dnl'ed files, like maybe it's installing some kind of file that is corrupted from thier system...?

Or should I still be conserned about a bug in my system...?

As I said everything else is woring fine considering I don't have anything loaded except XP Pro and Office XP....

Thanks
"g"

Comments

  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    You could always try Norton (not online) or doing a repair installation and see if a system file got fubar'ed.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited November 2003
    Black Hawk had this to say
    You could always try Norton (not online) or doing a repair installation and see if a system file got fubar'ed.

    I did the online and I did another fresh install of the OS, same probs with McAfee

    I am going to get a copy of norton today
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited November 2003
    Ok installed Norton 2004 Pro and it went in with out a prob except for one thing, I got an error when I tried to open the options pannel, but the error thing went right to Nortons site and a reg tweak is all it took, so all is good now.

    Nortons scheduler works, at least I can set up a schedule now so I think that its just a McAfee thing... :rolleyes

    Oh well thanks for trying to help guys.

    "g"
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