[SlimDevices: Beta] Questions re McAfee Firewall & Virus Scanner

[chinablues]

Recent nightly versions of SC come up with a message when installing to
the effect that 'McAfee Firewall found ... this may cause problems' 
Then a 'probing firewall' message.  But no message to say "OK" or "Not
OK".  Since SC runs fine I assume I am OK, but it would be nice if the
'probing firewall' dialog came back with an unambiguous result...like
'Firewall Settings OK for SC'.  As it is, I'm left hanging a little not
really knowing if SC will run properly or not.  (as I say, I know it
does run; I'm just thinking of the eventual release of 7.1 when a newby
installs 7.1 & gets this ambiguous message during installation).

Also, per another thread I opened which turned out also to be related
to McAfee, http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49131

Yes, I could get the scanner to scan by downgrading McAfee's scan
status....but this is surely not the right way to go.  SC scanner
should be able to run alongside McAfee's virus protection programs.  I
recently had to buy another program to get rid of AntivirusPro 2008 &
some of its derivatives.  This virus invaded my system when my McAfee
was in 'downgraded' mode.  Not sure if McAfee would have caught it of
not running in downgraded mode....but bottom line, SC shouldn't require
us to downgrade our virus scanning applications.

Dan


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