The caveat with such an approach (as is always suggested by Front Line) - is that if the McAfee server has an issue, or if the download protocol is corrupt or missing the essential component, and uninstall and attempted reinstall may land you with no protection at all - especially if you can't pulldown from McAfee, or get a DAT update.
So a signature that's a week out of date is better than no protection at all - especially since the suite is so tightly integrated now such that if you uninstall, you take all other bits of McAfee with you, not just the VirusScan.
I'm going to give it a few days to see what transpires. Sometimes that's all that's needed in McAfee's case - a few days to get things sorted out.
Would appreciate your feedback from the conference call tho'.
Cheers,
Goph.