McAfee VirusScan - 8.6.1

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This should wrap what would you expect from a company making antivirus to run on an advanced OS like Leopard. Nothing.

Sad thing is, Intego really needs a real rival to stop their insane pricing policy. With rivals like these, there is no hope.

This program. ver. 8.6 made my home folder disappear right after installing it. I had to go into my guest profile.. looked in the users folder and my profile folder was empty. I downloaded the program again and used its uninstaller and my home folder reappear ..... scared me bad.

Before uninstalling I did try a few things from the new profile I had just created.. I couldn't even repair permissions..

VirusScan (the software formerly known as Virex) is now apparently available for single users (licensees) for $36.55. Previously, the minimum order was either 3 or 5 "Licensees".

See here: http://www.shopmcafee.com/dr/sat5/ec_Main.Entry17C?SID=43625&SP=10023&CID=0&PID=630722&PN=1&V1=630722&CUR=840&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=245536

The latest build (version 8.6, 11-01-07) supposedly works with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and 10.5 "Leopard". See MACNN article: http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/29/virusscan.filedefense/

I've been monitoring this McAfee situation (for several years) waiting for a stable, single-user update. I'm still using Virex 7.2 (v1.1) [AKA Virex 7.2.1] on a system running 10.4 Tiger. I use "Get DAT Updates" to keep things up-to-date.

I'm not sure whether to update now, or just forget about this program when I upgrade to Leopard. Has anyone tried this latest update yet?

Once you go through the hassle of getting this turned on with grant numbers, etc. it works fine. I've not seen that many viruses on the Mac, but it had found a couple, plus PC viruses in email attachments, etc. It runs automatically every night on my machine. My only complaint is that when done running, it should self-terminate. Instead, it is sitting there on my desktop waiting for me to dismiss it every morning.

The second it was installed and restarted, I only got about 5 seconds of system response for every 5 minutes of spinning beachball. HORRIBLE! The problem stopped as soon as I uninstalled. No other changes were made during this testing.