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I had a big issue today that has finally pushed me over the edge with McAfee products…..<\/p>\n

First of all let me qualify why we currently use McAfee products as i know it’s not everyones cup of tea<\/p>\n

When we first started the company all of the clients who came on board straight away had McAfee anti-virus. Since we were just starting out we decided to stick with McAfee so we didn’t have to support two different products straight\u00a0away\u00a0and so that the client didn’t think we wanted to go and change everything\u00a0 (and costing them money!) as soon as we started supporting them<\/p>\n

We decided that we would review that policy as time went by and evaluate the other major players and decide on a vendor we were happy with<\/p>\n

Down the years there have been one or two issues\u00a0and experiences with bad support but that happens with every vendor right?<\/p>\n

So today i’m doing an SBS install and we had purchased “Total Virus Defence” for the client, i started the server install and installed VirusScan before i connected to the Internet. I then installed everything else\u00a0i wanted and decided to do my Windows Updates (including SP2!! which, touch wood, seems ok)<\/p>\n

One of the\u00a0updates was Internet Explorer 7 (which already had given me some grief)<\/p>\n

It’s a high priority update now and i couldn’t immediately see any reason why i shouldn’t install it as after all i really wouldn’t be doing much browsing with it (it’s a server remember!)<\/p>\n

To ensure all our anti-virus\u00a0definitions were current i installed McAfee AutoUpdate Architect. During the configuration, every time i opened a wizard the pages automatically changed as though i was clicking the next button and stopping me from doing anything!<\/p>\n

After a bit of digging i found this page<\/a>\u00a0which basically tells me that IE7 and UpdateUpdater are not a supported configuration!<\/p>\n

Now for those who don’t know…when you buy McAfee products you get a grant number, you login to\u00a0their site and download the latest version of the software including any documentation. I had downloaded the software and there was no extra documention files, i extracted the zip file and i read through the “read me” file and there is no mention of the fact that IE7 is unsuported. If it had been in there i wouldn’t have installed IE7 in the first place! This was the first time i’d found out there was a problem and i only i found out because went looking for it.<\/p>\n

I still haven’t found anywhere else it says the configuration is unsupported<\/p>\n

So we also paid for their “gold support” so i thought i’d see what the options were. I tried to login to their support portal and was told by the software that my email address was not valid and i should enter another. Five different addresses later and i knew i had to call someone.<\/p>\n

On the main support page is a single telephone number for support. Dialled that number and it’s dead….great!<\/p>\n

I had the number for the “gold support manager for the\u00a0EMEA region” so phoned his direct line and mobile. I’m still waiting for the call back<\/p>\n

Eventually we found a number and after being transferred three times and managed to explain the issue to get this answer,<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t work with IE7”<\/p>\n

Thats it. No details on any patch thats due out. No workaround to configure the software in a different way. Nothing<\/p>\n

I was basically told i’d have to “rollback to IE6”<\/p>\n

I wasn’t entirely keen on doing this but with the help of this KB article<\/a>\u00a0thats what i did.<\/p>\n

When i’m doing an SBS install i usually take regular images of the system so i can go back to a point in time but because of the when i’d installed IE7\u00a0(at the start) i didn’t really want to lose all that work (i was installing AutoUpdater right towards the end!) so i’ve decided to run with it “as is” at the moment as the event log looks pretty clear and the system is pretty stable at the moment<\/p>\n

So thats it for McAfee for me. Too many annoyances and i’ve not been happy with the support for years<\/p>\n

We’ll evaluate some different systems in house and support two products until we finally move clients over to something else<\/p>\n

So what are you using at your clients? Do you get good support? Is it value for money?<\/p>\n

I’m going to look at Trend first i think but any insights would be welcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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