McAfee Virus Scan

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James Silverton

Hello, All!

I find McAfee Virus Scan and all their security programs to work
pretty well and I am not interested in discussing relative
merits of competitors at this point.

However, a computer scan at the default scheduled time of 8:00
AM Friday is unsuitable for me since I usually check my e-mail
then. It's not that I can't use Outlook Express but the
concurrent McAfee scan slows things down.

I did find out how to turn off the scan from McAfee but the
information on changing the schedule is inaccurate and hard to
understand. I will now post a route that works for me in the
hope that others might find it useful. As always, suggestions
for better, well-read news groups will be appreciated.


McAfee Scheduled Scan



Setting time



Right click M

Open Security Center

? Scan

? Configure

? Computer and Files

? Advanced

? Scheduled Scan



If the schedule is Reset, the annoying 8AM Friday will be set.



James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
 
James Silverton wrote:
> Hello, All!
>
> I find McAfee Virus Scan and all their security programs to work
> pretty well and I am not interested in discussing relative
> merits of competitors at this point.
>
> However, a computer scan at the default scheduled time of 8:00
> AM Friday is unsuitable for me since I usually check my e-mail
> then. It's not that I can't use Outlook Express but the
> concurrent McAfee scan slows things down.
>
> I did find out how to turn off the scan from McAfee but the
> information on changing the schedule is inaccurate and hard to
> understand. I will now post a route that works for me in the
> hope that others might find it useful. As always, suggestions
> for better, well-read news groups will be appreciated.
>
>
> McAfee Scheduled Scan
>
>
>
> Setting time
>
>
>
> Right click M
>
> Open Security Center
>
> ? Scan
>
> ? Configure
>
> ? Computer and Files
>
> ? Advanced
>
> ? Scheduled Scan
>
>
>
> If the schedule is Reset, the annoying 8AM Friday will be set.
>
>
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

James your giving the rest of us Americans a bad name, oh...too late.

--
Mike Pawlak
 
MAP wrote on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:00:24 -0500:

M> James Silverton wrote:
??>> Hello, All!
??>>
??>> I find McAfee Virus Scan and all their security programs
??>> to work pretty well and I am not interested in discussing
??>> relative merits of competitors at this point.

M> James your giving the rest of us Americans a bad name,
M> oh...too late.

I'm glad I prefaced my post with a refusal to discuss merits :-)
The knee-jerk religious objections to McAfee and Computer
Associates are always entertaining but take up a lot of space!
Like a lot of other things (Microsoft perhaps), it's amazing how
the companies stay in business with all the condemnations on the
web!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
 
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