Conflict with Mcafee Anti-Virus

[Jimmy_Jam]

After numerous tests, I have found that the latest update
of MS Anti-Spyware conflicts with Mcafee Ant-virus. Given
that prior to the update, they worked well together. I
have found that my processor is maxed out continuously by
the conflict, and that my PC runs extremely slow in
loading up programs.

Not sure if anyone else has had this problem As yet but
it'll be good to know.

Cheers, Jim

 

[Jimmy_jam]

Forgot to mention that it happens after a reboot of my PC
& I also can't open the Anti-Spyware pgm. It comes up
with an error telling me that I need to uninstall & re-
install latest verrsion of MS Anti-Spyware pgm if pgm
persists. Done this and still the same after a manual
update of the pgm.

Cheers - Jim

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Does this error have a number? I don't suppose that an update has any
effect on the problem (control panel, add or remove programs, Microsoft
Antispyware, change, update?)

This is worth trying even when a remove and reinstall fails, but I don't
expect it to work for your issue. What version of McAfee?

 

[Jimmy_Jam]

Thanks for your reply Bill

Not sure as I couldn't get this to conflict again after
the latest MS A/Sp update.

I just did an update and it took me to definitions v5707
from v5705 & all is well. So I decided to try and
duplicate the procedure which caused the conflict by
uninstalling MS A/Sp and re-installing it again (to
definitions v5687) and did an update to latest defn's
again(v5707), re-booted & all is well. Please note that
the conflict seemed to appear when the definitions were
last updated from 5687 to 5705.

So I can only conclude that the latest defn's (v5707)
must have fixed this issue.

For your Reference I have Mcafee version 9.0 build 9.0.10
DAT ver 4.0.4468

Win xp SP2 with all critical updates installed
Pentium v 4, 3 gig processor, 1 gig RAM, etc...

I Will monitor this to see if anything changes or
conflicts again.

Cheers, Jim

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks, Jim--no news is good news, I guess! Glad it went away--or got
fixed, or whatever.