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Is your McAfee up to date?

Friday, September 5th, 2014

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

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If that is clicked a pop up menu will come out and have different icons on it.

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The red shield with an M is the McAfee EPO agent icon, right-click the marked icon and select “About”

4 The “DAT Created on” date should not reflect a date older than a week from today.

 

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