All windows desktops and laptops (assets) of the University have McAfee loaded for your security. This enterprise edition automatically updates daily to ensure maximum protection against potential threats.
McAfee enterprise is one of the best anti-virus solutions on the market according to Gartner. It is crucial not to load/install any other anti-virus software i.e. AVG, Norton, etc. Installing more than one anti-virus program could negatively influence the performance of your computer; draining computing power and/or competing against each other leaving your computer vulnerable.
If you want to determine whether your McAfee anti-virus is up to date, do the following:
In the bottom right corner of your screen next to the time you will see the icon below
If that is clicked a pop up menu will come out and have different icons on it.
The red shield with an M is the McAfee EPO agent icon, right-click the marked icon and select “About”
The “DAT Created on” date should not reflect a date older than a week from today.
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I have encountered a few cases where there is no “DAT created on” line with the date and version of the definitions. In some way the definitions corrupted and also does not update to the current version.
McAffee is then also not even detecting any virus any more. The Notification Center of Windows 7 (little flag) will also have notices that the Antivirus and AntiSpyware is not up-to-date.
Please contact IT so that a technician can remedy the situation, by replacing the faulty definitions with a current working one.
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