I am trying to play the online game World of Tanks and the real time scanner essencially disables my game by causing serious lag to scan my PC while scanning. I tried turning it off but it still reminds me frequently that I am at risk. When the pop-up that constantly reminds me of the risk shows itself it again disables my game completely until I click 'dismiss'. This causes me to lose the game when it happens. Its almost impossible to play with this problem. I realize my computer is a risk when its disabled but I need it to stop reminding me and let me do my thing. Any Suggestions?
Ober
Caution, disabling it will make your machine open to infection.
Open SecurityCenter
Click Virus and Spyware Protection
Click Real-time scanning
Click Turn Off and then tell it for how long.
If it's objecting to something in your game or something you've downloaded to play the game, you can submit whatever it is for clearance.
I don't object to the scans and this is the only application that conflicts with your virus scanner. By and large I am happy with the protection provided with your products and yes it allows seamless access to the net for my game. I went through the process you describe and was able to disable it sucessfully last week-end however its the pop-up reminding me that I've disable real-time scans that completely locks my game controls until I click 'dismiss' thats causing the problem. Basicly I need the reminder to stop.
Ober
I don't think there's any way of stopping those but you should check with Technical Support about that. They are free to phone or use the online chat and linked under Useful Links at the top of this page.
They may have some way of negating the need to disable it in the first place.
Thank you, I will contact Support.
That's what they just said they were doing. Good luck ober999. 😉
I am unbelieveably annoyed at Mcafee, I choose not to pay for their dumb subscriptions as they are rubbish compared to other companies but I cannot be bothered to uninstall it. However when I wanted to turn off realtime scans I cannot turn it off because a big sign saying pay for a subscription is in the way. Why is McAfee so stupid I hate it.
steadychap wrote:
I am unbelieveably annoyed at Mcafee, I choose not to pay for their dumb subscriptions as they are rubbish compared to other companies but I cannot be bothered to uninstall it. However when I wanted to turn off realtime scans I cannot turn it off because a big sign saying pay for a subscription is in the way. Why is McAfee so stupid I hate it.
With an attitude like that no wonder things are difficult. You are annoyed about software that's bothering you but, in your own words, you can't be bothered to uninstall it. There's your problem right there. It is very easy to uninstall the software and you are going to have to if the subscription has run out. Simply go to Control Panel > Programs and uninstall.
Then if you wish to make sure it's completely gone, run the MCPR cleanup tool and reboot, simple as that. It should take no more than 5 to 10 minutes of your valuable time.
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Message was edited by: Ex_Brit on 13/02/14 3:36:54 EST PMHi ober999
It seems that the pop-up is due to McAfee Security Scan Plus - a tiny Marketing tool to detect Virus Protection in a PC. Check and post back if you have it Installed. The Real time Scanning and this pop-up is not related to each other.
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