Question for McAfee users

I know that you must, in some way, allow ActiveX in order for McAfee AV to do its thing. Is simply putting mcafee.com into the IE Trusted Zone enough, or must do go even further than this? Thank you.

Acadia

 

Which firewall are you using?

 

With only breif experiance with VSE 8.0i enterprise, i think activeX is only needed for the registration

 

I use ZA Free behind a Linksys router.

Acadia

 

Acadia, I see you have posted over on the McAfee forums.

If you do a search there on ActiveX, you will see a lot of disgruntled users; see for example; http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=33697 and http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=39160&highlight=activex.

The need for ActiveX in the last 2 versions of the Home AV is why some users of this AV have stayed with version 7.

 

Blackcat, thank you -- I've got some reading to do.

Acadia

 

Ok, I'm one of those people that never uses auto-update with my anti-virus, I have always updated manually; I like to know what my system is doing and when. Couldn't I simply kill all ActiveX, like I usually do, and then allow it just to do my McAfee updates, and then when they're done simply kill ActiveX again?

Acadia

 

By update manually, do you mean that you download the update off of Mcafee's site and run it yourself? Or do you mean that you still use Mcafee's update function in VirusScan, just without scheduling times?

If it's the former, I don't think you'd need ActiveX at all.

 

I don't know because I don't even have McAfee, so I don't yet know how it works.

Acadia

 

you can always just allow activex on the Nai update page

 

Hi, BigC. Again, I know nothing yet about McAfee, but according to posters at the McAfee forum, for some reason that doesn't work.

Acadia

 

I don't know? All I know is that I never in a lot of years useing mcafee did I ever have any trouble allowing activex,This is just my experience though.

bigc

 

The activeX problem with McAfee just started with version 8.0. A lot of the McAfee users have decided to stay with version 7 for that reason, so the versions of McAfee that you were using in previous years may not have needed activeX if they were version 7 or earlier.
Acadia

 

you can still get version seven, it uses the same engine and defs as all of the later versions.