Mcafee2011 update & Questions about 2011

[exbrit]

Snipping tool problems:

Open Control Panel, click the Classic View in the Tasks Pane.
Double click Programs and Features.
Click the 'Turn Windows features on and off' in the Task Pane.
This window may take a couple of minutes to display.
When the options appear in the list, scroll down to the 'Tablet PC Optional Components' and remove the check mark from that item.
Click OK, exit everything and reboot the computer.
This will uninstall the 'Snipping Tool' from the system.
After the computer restarts, go back into Control Panel and repeat the same procedure,
this time add the check mark to the 'Tablet PC Optional Components'.
This will install these components in the system with a fresh copy of all the files.

Attack detection tray lists certain things that you can turn on optionally, but if you click 'Learn More' it tells you that enabling them may cause other things not to work properly.  I normally leave things like that well alone unless specifically told to alter the settings by someone in authority here.

[newjack]

Thanks Peter, I actually had it unchecked already.I fixed the snipping tool using the registry fix from the other thread.Here is the post from last year on attack detection.

Do you know if this feature adds extra security?https://community.mcafee.com/thread/26401

                                                                                     Thanks for all the help, Jack

[exbrit]

I remember now....

I said 'The items appearing in "Attack Detections" apparently are really old detections that no longer are a problem and should have been removed from the interface but it's a case of someone in the programming department literally forgetting to do it.  Turning them on or off shouldn't make any difference.'

So I would ignore them.   I remember that was what I was told by one of the managers who got it from the software developer people.

[newjack]

Not sure why they left it.But thanks for all the help.

[exbrit]

Neither do I.  All the best 😉

[exbrit]

I just uploaded in image in a test area OK using IE9.0.1 - that's the new version since the big Microsoft update yesterday.   FYI to anyone using IE9.

[simcha]

I find this answer strange, since it is the same answer they gave for the 2010 version, and I can't imagine their "forgetting" to remove something two years in a row.

While most of these attacks seem more likely to be targeted at a server rather than a consumer desktop, some of them could apply to both.

The only other thought I have is that it may be that if the overall security level of the firewall is set high enough, that most of these attacks don't have the possibility of reaching their target because of having been blocked from accessing the PC due to the overall security setting?  But that wouldn't apply to IP Options Validation or to IP Source Routing, so even this possible explanation doesn't explain everything.

I think a lot of people who have been confused over this issue would feel a lot more comfortable if you could get an "official" answer about this section.

Thanks in advance for clarifying this rather confusing subject.

[Peacekeeper]

Ok asked for official comment