Thanks again. I did end up going to support after writing my message and was bumped up to the higher level where I was eventually basically told the same thing -- that since the new release of McAfee total Protection 2010 came out in April there have been many bugs to be resolved and this is one of them ---as well as the slow scanning and haphazard start of scheduled scans. I should not expect to see any notification on the icon during scheduled scans or updates until all is fixed. The technician said that trying to accomodate the Windows 7 with this new release has also released a multititude of bugs in the software that they are working on fixing.
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