What causes McAfee to be disabled from boot

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John

Hi

I run an up-to-date version of McAfee and even though it is specified to run
in the background from startup (confirmed by looking at msconfig|).

Sometimes after startup the small 'M' in the bottom right corner is black,
not red, indicating that McAfee has been disabled.

On scanning my PC there do not seem to be any viruses.

What causes that sort of behaviour which is clearely worrying.
 
B

Befunge Sudoku

Hi

I run an up-to-date version of McAfee and even though it is specified to run
in the background from startup (confirmed by looking at msconfig|).

Sometimes after startup the small 'M' in the bottom right corner is black,
not red, indicating that McAfee has been disabled.

On scanning my PC there do not seem to be any viruses.

What causes that sort of behaviour which is clearely worrying.
Several currently widespread variants of the Sdbot worm - and
many other viruses - attempt to disable antivirus software.
Many of these know how to hide, in normal Windows mode.
Try a scan in Safe Mode.
If you have smss.exe or smce.exe in c:\windows, worry.

(There should be an smss.exe in c:\windows\system32, however)
 
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David H. Lipman

From: "John" <[email protected]>

| Hi
|
| I run an up-to-date version of McAfee and even though it is specified to run
| in the background from startup (confirmed by looking at msconfig|).
|
| Sometimes after startup the small 'M' in the bottom right corner is black,
| not red, indicating that McAfee has been disabled.
|
| On scanning my PC there do not seem to be any viruses.
|
| What causes that sort of behaviour which is clearely worrying.
|


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } 4 batch files, 6 Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend, Kasperski and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line
Scanners to
remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site. The choices are;
Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * *
 

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