McAfee ePO agent install blocked by Anti-Spyware

[Steve Youngquist]

Alright,
I've got an issue. Seems that some users have installed
MS Anti-Spyware beta on there systems at my office. We
are deploying McAfee E-Policy Orchestrator, which pushes
the install of an agent to systems in our network. If
Anti-Spyware is installed, it will block the installation
unless a user clicks to allow it. Does anyone know of a
way to work around this by pushing some setting change or
something like that to their systems? Thanks.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

No.

See this KB article, which warns of a similar issue. This article is one of
two in the Known issues posted at the download site, and is also, I believe,
in the Known issues section of the help file in .509

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892375 End users may be prompted to allow or
block administrative actions that originate from a central management tool
after they install Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) on a computer that is managed
by Systems Management Server 2003

Additionally, there are issues with scripting and this beta, which are
covered by this article:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/articles/antispy.mspx

I don't know what to suggest to you, except that another beta participant
has a working unattended uninstall that you may wish to deploy--or you may
wish to block the installations.

An anonymous contributor to these groups says that this command is working
fine for an unattended uninstall for him. Pushing this out might be an
option?


MsiExec.exe /X {536F7C74-844B-4683-B0C5-EA39E19A6FE3} /L*vx /Log c:\msas.log
/quiet