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McAfee VirusScan Plus
Just updated McAfee software to VirusScan Plus 2008. During the McAfee installation I was forced to uninstall Spybot Search & Destroy before I could complete the new install. The message said Spybot S&D is incompatible with VirusScan Plus.
Anybody got any experience running both on their system? Or was this just scare tactics from McAfee to kill off their competitor's free software?
Thanks,
Ron
Anybody got any experience running both on their system? Or was this just scare tactics from McAfee to kill off their competitor's free software?
Thanks,
Ron
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Posted February 27th, 2008 04:00
Joe,
Thanks for that link. I learned something today!
I did exactly the same thing as that person did. Had VirusScan 10 and Spybot 1.4 happily co-existing, until I updated to VirusScan Plus 2008. Will try turning McAfee System Guard off while running Spybot.
Ron
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Posted February 28th, 2008 00:00
Joe,
I installed Spybot v1.5 after loading VirusScan Plus and that went ok. I turned off McAfee SystemGuards and Spybot succesfully immunized the system. VirusScan didn't even make a peep when I reactivated SystemGuards, so all is well, at least until the next conflict. ;)
Thanks again!
Ron
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Posted February 28th, 2008 03:00
Thanks for the feedback Ron.
Hope that continues to work!
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Posted February 27th, 2008 03:00
That is a known conflict:
http://community.mcafee.com/showthread.php?t=216783
According to this link, you can re-install Spybot after VirusScan Plus is installed, but you can't use the immunize function (which sort of renders Spybot less than useful).
Since I don't use McAfee, I don't know if it was ever resolved.