[dba-Tech] XP SP2

Jon Tydda jon at tydda.plus.com
Fri Sep 3 13:33:12 CDT 2004


I've never had a problem with McAfee, they're who we use at work, and touch
wood, I've never been infected by a virus since I've been using it (4 years
or so now). This isn't really a "problem", just an odd "feature", like other
programs have :-)


Jon
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] XP SP2


Oh, OK its a McAfee issue - that explains a lot!

Jon, do yourself a favor and try another brand...
Norton, Trend, CA eTrust, Grisoft, Panda - they all are above McAfee IMO.

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 12:33 PM
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No, not XP security centre, McAfee Security centre - part of the VirusScan
and Spamkiller packages. There are virtually no configurable options on it,
so I can barely change what I want to be virus scanned, let alone tell it
not to show a splash screen... I may end up having to buy the professional
version, but at least i'd get two licences with that.


Jon
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Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 5:06 PM
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If its the Security Center Splash Screen - don't you have a check box in the
bottom corner to not show it? (could be only on XPHE?)

Otherwise, try going into Security Center (Start|Programs|Accessories|System
Tools|Security Center). On the lower left side bar there is a link "change
the way security center alerts me". click that and uncheck anti-virus. When
I did this I didn't get the notification from the system tray but if you
look at the security it shows anti-virus red for quite some time before it
finally goes green. I think the problem ies in that MS checks too early. It
should be the last service started - since it is only a check and not a
solution.

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:48 AM
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Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] XP SP2


I can't, it's on the splash screen when it loads on startup... mad, eh? :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bartow [mailto:john at winhaven.net]
Sent: 03 September 2004 16:47
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Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] XP SP2


Have you turned off the alert to see if it goes away (or causes some other
distraction)?

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:36 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] XP SP2


I have a similar thign with McAfee Security Centre running on 2k. It loads
and tells me that the firewall, virusscan and spamkiller aren't running, and
second later loads them all. Very confusing for people who just don't get
the sheer bloody mindedness of computers sometimes...


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bartow [mailto:john at winhaven.net]
Sent: 03 September 2004 16:35
To: _DBA-Tech; _DBA-OT
Subject: [dba-Tech] XP SP2


I've noticed one small problem with XP SP2 on XPHE. I have attempted this on
XPPro yet.

This system has Norton Internet Security on it and after I installed SP2
Norton asked whether or not it should report its status to Windows Security
Center. Norton recommended not to which I figured is just going to be
confusing to this user so I chose to report the status.

However with the Security Center Alert setting set to report if the AV is up
to date when it first starts it momentarily warns that the computer is at
risk because Norton is not turned on. It then goes away as Norton finishes
loading. Bad news for the unknowing user.

So I turned of the alert for AV and it doesn't do warn about it anymore.

So basically it sounds like the security center is loading first - which is
fairly stupid since it, in and off itself is not going to do anything but
give warnings.

Anyone else have issues like this?
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