How to disable a program

I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I am
sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you? I have McAfee and I do not see
any option to temporarily suspend or interrupt. I would like to know how to
do this.
Many Thanks,
Gene I

Go into the programs setting menu and disable the real-time monitoring,
personally I never do this and have never had any problems.

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"Gene L." <> wrote in message
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>I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
>before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I am
>sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you? I have McAfee and I do not see
>any option to temporarily suspend or interrupt. I would like to know how to
>do this.
> Many Thanks,
> Gene I

Hi Gene,

I have never used Mcafee but with Norton, AVG, or Avast there are options to
tempoarily stop the realtime scans. I would check with the help files for
McAfee.

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Paul


"Gene L." wrote:

> I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
> before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I am
> sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you? I have McAfee and I do not see
> any option to temporarily suspend or interrupt. I would like to know how to
> do this.
> Many Thanks,
> Gene I
>

From the McAfee virus scan manual

Right click the McAfee icon, point to Virus scan and click disable.
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Paul


"Gene L." wrote:

> I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
> before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I am
> sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you? I have McAfee and I do not see
> any option to temporarily suspend or interrupt. I would like to know how to
> do this.
> Many Thanks,
> Gene I
>

Normally that's done through the AV or security software - it could be done
by right-clicking the system tray (near the clock on the task bar) icon for
the program, there's either an "exit" or "disable" option usually.

You will end up with the Windows Security centre then nagging you about AV
is turned off, but if you did it intentionally, ignore the alert.

If it's specific to your particular AV then asking a forum or group for that
software would be the way to go.

Found this after a 2 second google search:
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/showthread.php?t=189315

Seems to be what you want to do.






"Gene L." <> wrote in message
news:962066FE-E433-465E-B215-...
> I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
> before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I am
> sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you? I have McAfee and I do not see
> any option to temporarily suspend or interrupt. I would like to know how
> to do this.
> Many Thanks,
> Gene I

Paul.
Thank you for the quck response. I have looked at teh McAfee Security
Center and have right clicked the Icon but have not been able to see
anything that says "Disable". I do not have a scan manual and I have not
seen anything in the help topics that seems to fit.
Any further suggestions? I appreciate your help.


> wrote in message
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> From the McAfee virus scan manual
>
> Right click the McAfee icon, point to Virus scan and click disable.
> --
> Paul
>
>
> "Gene L." wrote:
>
>> I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
>> before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I
>> am
>> sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you? I have McAfee and I do not
>> see
>> any option to temporarily suspend or interrupt. I would like to know how
>> to
>> do this.
>> Many Thanks,
>> Gene I
>>

"Gene L." <> wrote in message
news:962066FE-E433-465E-B215-...

>I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
>before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I am
>sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you?


I'm not the one who gave you the earlier advice, but yes, I would recommend
uninstalling (permanently). In my view (and that of many of us here), Norton
is the worst security software available, and McAfee is second worst. There
are many better alternatives, and some of them are even free.

> I have McAfee and I do not see any option to temporarily suspend or
> interrupt. I would like to know how to do this.
> Many Thanks,
> Gene I

"Ken Blake" <> wrote:

>"Gene L." <> wrote in message
>news:962066FE-E433-465E-B215-...
>
>>I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
>>before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I am
>>sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you?
>
>
>I'm not the one who gave you the earlier advice, but yes, I would recommend
>uninstalling (permanently). In my view (and that of many of us here), Norton
>is the worst security software available, and McAfee is second worst. There
>are many better alternatives, and some of them are even free.

The bad-mouthing of Norton and McAfee has risen (fallen?) to the
knee-jerk reaction stage for most of the old-timers and will probably
stay there regardless of any changes made to either program/suite.

It would appear that the most recent version of the Norton suite is
completely different in all respects and if so, it will deserve
another look by those of you who regularly trash the Norton products
here. I doubt that any of you will give it even the slightest glance.

Richie Hardwick

"Richie Hardwick" <> wrote in message
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> "Ken Blake" <> wrote:
>
>>"Gene L." <> wrote in message
>>news:962066FE-E433-465E-B215-...
>>
>>>I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or McAfee
>>>before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I
>>>am
>>>sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you?
>>
>>
>>I'm not the one who gave you the earlier advice, but yes, I would
>>recommend
>>uninstalling (permanently). In my view (and that of many of us here),
>>Norton
>>is the worst security software available, and McAfee is second worst.
>>There
>>are many better alternatives, and some of them are even free.
>
> The bad-mouthing of Norton and McAfee has risen (fallen?) to the
> knee-jerk reaction stage for most of the old-timers and will probably
> stay there regardless of any changes made to either program/suite.
>
> It would appear that the most recent version of the Norton suite is
> completely different in all respects and if so, it will deserve
> another look by those of you who regularly trash the Norton products
> here. I doubt that any of you will give it even the slightest glance.


I have heard some early good reports of the same thing with the newest
version of Norton, but have had no experience with it myself. I *may* change
my mind about the product when I learn more about it in the future, or I may
not. I don't yet know enough to make any predictions about it.

But one thing I will *not* change my mind about is the company, Symantec,
that makes and sells these products. I think their quality and their
behavior has been terrible. I have no respect for them, and I don't want to
use or recommend any products from a company that has behaved so badly in
the past.

That may be one reason why Norton products get so much bad press on these
newsgroups; not so much because of the actual product, although previous
versions of Norton haven't been worth recommending, but of the company
Symantec itself.

I've said on many occasions that when Norton Anti Virus, et al were part of
the Norton company then the product was the 'bee all and end all' It was the
de-facto application recommended by the vast majority of people (This is in
the days of Win 95 etc). When Symantec took over the product went steadily
downhill, but then the same thing happened when they took over Powerquest;
their flagship application, Drive Image' certainly took a nose dive.

It looks as if its a case of 'originally a goods product, just wrong
company.'

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"Ken Blake" <> wrote in message
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> "Richie Hardwick" <> wrote in message
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>
>> "Ken Blake" <> wrote:
>>
>>>"Gene L." <> wrote in message
>>>news:962066FE-E433-465E-B215-...
>>>
>>>>I frequently see the advice to disable a program such as Norton or
>>>>McAfee
>>>>before making a suggested change to a system but how do you do that? I
>>>>am
>>>>sure you can't mean to uninstall or do you?
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm not the one who gave you the earlier advice, but yes, I would
>>>recommend
>>>uninstalling (permanently). In my view (and that of many of us here),
>>>Norton
>>>is the worst security software available, and McAfee is second worst.
>>>There
>>>are many better alternatives, and some of them are even free.
>>
>> The bad-mouthing of Norton and McAfee has risen (fallen?) to the
>> knee-jerk reaction stage for most of the old-timers and will probably
>> stay there regardless of any changes made to either program/suite.
>>
>> It would appear that the most recent version of the Norton suite is
>> completely different in all respects and if so, it will deserve
>> another look by those of you who regularly trash the Norton products
>> here. I doubt that any of you will give it even the slightest glance.
>
>
> I have heard some early good reports of the same thing with the newest
> version of Norton, but have had no experience with it myself. I *may*
> change my mind about the product when I learn more about it in the future,
> or I may not. I don't yet know enough to make any predictions about it.
>
> But one thing I will *not* change my mind about is the company, Symantec,
> that makes and sells these products. I think their quality and their
> behavior has been terrible. I have no respect for them, and I don't want
> to use or recommend any products from a company that has behaved so badly
> in the past.
>
>
>