MCAfee Virus scan question....

[anniesdad]

How do I change the settings to only scan what's on drive C: and not all my network drives as well?

Thanks in anticipation...

S

[arcturus]

In version 9 there is no easy way. However there is a registry hack, so observing all the usual backup rules, fire up regedit and go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE-> Network Associates->TVD->Shared Components->On Access Scanner->McShield->Configuration
In the right hand pane, change the value of bNetworkScanEnabled from 1 to 0

I have heard mixed reports on this fix, but worth a try.

As an alternative, you can remove all mapped drives and instead put shortcuts to the network shares in network places. A kludge, i know, but it works.

>> Edited by arcturus on Wednesday 9th March 12:17