I have Mcafee SecurityCenter Ver 11.0 and CCleaner ver 3.13.1600 running on Win 7 Home. I have been having problems with the Real Time Scanning utility popping up a warning that "Real Time Scanning is off,your computer is at risk". A Mcafee rep on their help forum said CCleaner is known for deleting required Mcafee registry keys,causing problems. The good news is that I have found that the warning is a false positive,and Real Time Scanning is actually still running when I get the warning about it being off. Does anyone know if there is a possibility that CCleaner could cause issues like this? I always save a copy when using the CC registry cleaner.Thanks.
I've never heard about this, but maybe macafee should shut itself off!
Newbeak61 there have not been any other posts about this that I can recall.
It would be unlikely that such a well known AV would write its program in such a way that it would allow another program to have the ability to turn its Real Time Scanning off.
@Newbreak, if you have too many problems, you can try AVG free. There is also Avast & Avira as well...
Just a suggestion...
Nobody asked the important question so I shall.
Hello Newbeak61, can you tell us if you are running only the cleaner section ofCCleanerr or are you in an attempt to have "a clean registry" telling CCleaner to fix all in the registry section.
If it is the latter, what you are doing is delete the secret registry entry(ies) that Mcafee places with "association" in order to not be disabled by malware deleting needed entries. For using the Registry section it's always best to clean less than more. Please take some time to read my signature.
It would be unlikely that such a well known AV would write its program in such a way that it would allow another program to have the ability to turn its Real Time Scanning off.
Unfortunately many can be shut-off too easily, one example is MSE.
Perhaps doing a repair install of McAfee would help, don't know though as I haven't used them for 13 years but they were the first antivirus I ever used.