Okay, the search feature is down, so I slogged through all
26 pages of this topic and found a few posts on McAfee
compatibility, but no real solutions. So let me bring this
question up to date.
For the past year or so, my organization has been trying
different solutions to the spyware/adware/malware problem,
and up until recently Microsoft Antispyware beta had
peacefully coexisted with Spybot S&D's Teatimer, Ad-Aware,
Windows XP SP2 firewall, and McAfee 4.5.1 and McAfee 7.0
Enterprise. Then we tried upgrading some of our computers
to McAfee 8.0i.
Before somebody tells me how terrible McAfee AV is and how
great Norton AV is, don't bother. We had a couple of off
site departments using Norton, and it didn't peacefully
coexist with anything. And, it was helpless against most
of the trojans that spread malware. We might consider
other solutions, but Norton doesn't hold a candle to other
antispyware/antivirus products.
My guess is we have set McAfee's unwanted products
settings a little too high, and McAfee has taken over and
disabled the Real-time protection settings of Microsoft
Antispyware. It is a shame we can't have them both running
at the same time, because even though Microsoft's spyware
detection is the best out there (way better than
McAfee's), no single product is 100% effective against
spyware, and we would like to keep two or three
antispyware products running simultaneously.
What I would like to know is if anyone has already figured
out what PARTICULAR settings in McAfee 8.0i need to be
disabled to allow Microsoft Antispyware Real-time
protection to work. Of course, this has to be done without
compromising McAfee's superior antivirus protection. If
necessary, I'll figure this out on my own and come back to
share my findings, but I'd rather not have to reinvent the
wheel if somebody else has already done it.
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