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I am currently running McAfee VirusScan Enterprise + AntiSpyware Enterprise Version 8.8. I've attached a screen shot of the about box for reference.
While this version works very well and is supported on Windows 7, the same cannot be said for Windows 8. I did not do a screen capture of the error, but when I tried to install it on Windows 8, I got a message that it was not compatible. Since that can relate to a lot of different things, I figured I would go ahead and do the install anyway, and see what all did not work.
Well, turns out
A LOT of things don't work. For starters, the auto update task to download the DAT files do not run on their own. Even if you try to run them manually, they fail. This means that any DAT updates would have to be manually downloaded from McAfee, and installed myself. Along the same lines, the task to run a Full System scan will also not run on the schedule. It does however run when you kick off the task yourself.
I also noticed quite a number of warnings and errors being logged in the event logs every time I would reboot. I did not get a screen shot of those, but they did look important, almost like things were not running as they should be.
Because of that, I went back to Windows 7.
So, my question is this: Does anyone know when McAfee will be releasing a version of this software that will be compatible with Windows 8? I did some looking on McAfee's webpage, but I did not find anything out there yet talking about an upcoming version of this software.
So if anyone has any information, that would be great.
Thanks,
--Brian