AutoUpdate time with EPO

If you look at the console on your own machine, you'll see that 'AutoUpdate' does not have '(managed)' in front of it. that's because it isn't actually managed from ePO - It's built-in to each local installation of VirusScan.

It's time can be changed by the local user, but there's a better way if you want to manage when updates occur from ePO....

Within the User Interface policies is a checkbox: 'Disable default Autoupdate task schedule'. if you check this box, when policies are applied, the local AutoUpdate task is disabled (it can't be removed from the list). However you must also setup your own update tasks, and schedule them.

(I suggest you do this first and make sure they are working before disabling the default AutoUpdate)

You can have greater control this way, so that (for example) you can check for DAT updates each hour, Engine updates (via a seperate task) each day, patches once a week and so on....

hope that helps.

Uninstalling using McAfee Consumer Product Removal

Download the removal tool from http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe.

Click Save and save the file to any folder on the computer.

Navigate to the folder where the file is saved.
Double-click MCPR.exe.

Click Run. A Command Line window will be displayed, and then close automatically. Wait for a second Command Line window to be displayed. (Do not double-click MCPR.exe again.) The program will begin the cleanup.

Observe the installation, which could take several minutes. The following message will be displayed in the Command Line window:

The machine must reboot to complete the un-installation. Reboot now? [y.n]

Press Y on the keyboard.
Wait for the computer to restart.

All McAfee products are now removed from your computer.

McAfee Common Framework returned error ffffffdf@3

When updating McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise 8.0i manually I get the error message "Failed to initialize common updater subsystem, Make sure the McAfee Framework Services is running, McAfee Common Framework returned error ffffffdf@3". What do I do?

You will need to Re-Register the OLE32.DLL to Re-Populate the Registry. To do this please do the following:-

Click Start, then Run, and in the Open text box type:

Regsvr32.exe %Windir%\System32\Ole32.dll

A RegSvr32 popup message states: DllRegisterServer in C:\WINNT\System32\ole32.dll succeeded.

Click OK.