McAfee

[Paddy]

So what do i do about Outlook?

I dont want to reinstall office.... there must be a registry entry calling outlook to load McAfee ???

[Paddy]

WTF, my registry is full of entries for that POS

[Gurm]

Have you checked the plug-in control panel of Outlook yet?

Tools->Options->Other->Advanced->Add-In Manager
and
Tools->Options->Other->Advanced->COM Plug-ins

- Gurm

[Paddy]

yeah it was in there...

There is still a load of crap in my registry though.
Time to fire up regcleaner...

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Gurm
Sophos, as a policy, does not believe in cleaning infected files. They assume you have a backup.

- Gurm

I'm just waiting for Prof BigX to loose his none backedup research and then our chap responsible for Antivirus software is going to have a very bad day.
What I've done in the past when I've seen infected work files is remove Sophos when it only wants to delete and install mcafee. Let it clean the work files, if it trashes them tough and then re-install Sophos and tell the user to keep it up todate. Which they won't of course.

[Gurm]

I'd say just temporarily disable Sophos, and install F-Prot Win (fairly non-intrusive last time I checked) or F-Prot DOS (completely self-contained).

- Gurm