Mcafee avert stinger upgrades

They are not Anti-Virus. They are Bogey sniffers. Detection rate isn't as high as I had hoped. But, this, run in combination with Malwarebytes and SAS and then followed up with CF if necessary really just made my life easier - my malware computer throughput just increased twofold! As for running an. EXE to programname. COM Windows will run it like it's an executable file because it is! CyberDoc thought you where a pro?

Bottom Line: Would come in handy if you need it I guess, but installs some crap called "Real Protect" without asking that's always running.

Runs also on Win98 SE! I was too fast. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps. Get it today! Uh-oh, my personal enemy is unleashed.

I did not check since about a year - and I am not going to again - but the last time I used this, I had to start a system wide reconstruction of deleted "threat" files. All of them were false positives and deleted without question. Maybe McAfee has changed the way it works but if not, I would use this extremely carefully. According to the McAfee Stinger web page, the action to fix or report on detection is configurable in the preferences. Is always better to check on the defaults before executing something new.

Probably really not appropriate to add my knock against McAfee, but maybe someone might be spared grief by being cautious with this app. John, not sure what's causing it, but I seem to be getting a reget error every time i try to DL this through the platform. MD5's match, and it downloads and installs without issue via browser, so it's not an issue for me per se, but maybe for others.

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