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McAfee Virus Scan 8.5i fails Vista VB100 certification due to update problems

While under XP, I've had no issues in updating virus signatures or checking the Help/About information to determine the latest signature files installed.  There may be some additional work required though for this process to work more smoothly on Vista? 

McAfee Virus Scan 8.5i fails Vista VB100 certification due to update problems
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/vb_news/2007/02_06.xml

QUOTE: In the wake of the recent VB100 test on the new Windows Vista platform, VB has been in communication with the makers of many of the products tested. The developers of one of those adjudged to have failed the test, McAfee, have insisted that when their VirusScan product is fully updated with the data provided for testing it is capable of detecting the samples missed during our tests.

After intensive investigation, VB has found that detection routines for the two malware samples missed were indeed included in the update package provided by McAfee. However, when McAfee's manual update procedure was run it failed to apply the update to the product, despite both on-screen messages and logs stating that the product had been updated successfully.

Posted: Feb 10 2007, 02:54 PM by Harry Waldron | with 3 comment(s)

Comments

Spyware Sucks said:

This article came to my attention via Harry Waldron's blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archive/2007/02/10/mcafee-virus-scan-8-5i-fails-vista-vb100-certification-due-to-update-problems.aspx

# February 10, 2007 8:02 PM

Jibz.kassim said:

i have been attacked by raila odinga that keeps on popping on ma screen am ware of "smss" but am wondering if mcafee 8.5i would work on a visat operated machine its ma 3rd day with no work done help me out pliz

# January 5, 2008 3:03 AM

bavan said:

i required september 2008 updates of mcaff 8.5i, could anybody tell where does it available.

# October 23, 2008 5:09 AM