February 2nd, 2006
McAfee AntiVirus Users Should Avoid IE7 Beta (for Now)
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Why should they avoid it? Well, according to News.com, besides the security vulnerability we wrote about earlier, McAfee security software fails to display text or graphics when their UI is displayed.
We Say: Since McAfee uses ActiveX in its products, this isn’t really a surprise to me. My guess (and it’s just a guess) is it has to do with the next ActiveX security measures in place in IE7, whereby a lot of functionality is disabled by default. I’m sure this will get ironed out, but for now, if you use McAfee, stay away from IE7.
ed3 says:
Kinda sad that an antivirus package relies on bits from a web browser…
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:48 am
jeff says:
I’m using IE7 and have McAfee VirusScan… and everything works fine for me.
February 2nd, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Brad Brening says:
If you examine the McAfee programs, you find that their entire GUI is HTML based - the program hosts an Internet Explorer instance that renders their display elements. There are quite a few programs that use a hosted IE instance to render their GUI, as you can usually get a nicer looking application as a result. It is a lot easier to pull off a shaded button, say, in HTML that it is via the normal Win32 common controls. In fact, Microsoft Money used to be rendered this way - I am not sure if it still is, though.
I have to assume that this is the problem with the McAfee programs. They probably reference IE in a manner that doesn’t take into account browser upgrades, or MS somehow breaks compatibility in the new version.
February 2nd, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Aidle says:
I don’t think McAFree only having a problem.
Norton Systemworks 2006 and Internet Security crash when trying to excess them although they able to load during system startup.
DAP - Download Accelerator Plus 8.0 unable to run due to C++ error. So I try to reinstall the program again viola C++ error again and the setup can’t even run.
Diskeeper 9.0 were also having error when running, but I did not fully check them.
But I managed to ran IE 7 Beta for few hours but with no problem and finally decide to uninstall (wonder if the anti-virus is running correctly) them successfully and everything is back to normal.
That’s why it is call beta.
February 3rd, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Mark Thompson says:
I use McAfee AntiVirus on both of my computers.I installed IE7 Beta on my 2nd machine & when I tried to update my McAfee products it kept telling me I had Netscape Navigator installed & to download the Netscape plugin.I had to install Netscape on it to do the updates.
February 4th, 2006 at 4:17 am
LinksMaster says:
McAfee updates and IE7 RC1 or later work.
IE7 RC1 works with McAfee ActiveX updating provided their update site is in your trusted site list.
1.) Launch IE7 RC1 (or later; final release) > Internet Options (menu) > Security (tab) > Trusted Sites (green checkmark) > Site (button) to access the Trusted Sites menu.
2.) Uncheck the “Require (https:)” box and add http://us.mcafee.com to the “Add this website to the zone:” and click “Add” to add their update site to your Trusted Sites list.
3.) Let the McAfee ActiveX component load. Allow it to run when prompted by the information bar. And click the “Update” button in the browser window when it loads.
The product will then update. So, from IE7 RC1 (release candidate one) and beyond updating McAfee should work provided it’s in your trusted sites list.
September 14th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Jim says:
I use windows XP, IE 7, and recently Downloaded a new version of McAfee virus scan. Boy! does the computer take forever to show IE 7 now
May 11th, 2007 at 11:37 am