Re: McAfee Viruscan and System restore


"Carl Keehn" <carlkeehn@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am running a Dimension E310 and a few days ago had cause to run system
restore to restore video settings that had been messed up by ACDsee. After
the restore, I kept getting a message "Some components of ActiveShield are
either missing or may not have been installed properly" The antivirus
software was disabled.

Why would this happen after system restore? I was able to reinstall the
virus software and everything is now up and running.

Thanks



Depending on the version of McAfee (standalone virus scanner, or a suite of
AV, spam, spyware and firewall) it's likely some definition updates were
removed with the system restore.

Probably just confused McAfee as to what it had, what it needed - perhaps
some tables within the program even disagreed as to what information the
program thought it had downloaded/installed and what it actually had.

Remember system restore won't touch your created files, but will affect
applications and driver changes that have occurred since the restore date.


Stew


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