Peter & Vinod_r2
Funny you should send me to ESET, I got fed up with McAfee always hanging up on pause on the Real Time Scanner and tried ESET's trial version of NOD32. I thought I might give their smart security a try as well. I had a few issues with NOD32 during the trial. I also ran into issues trying to get it uninstalled. I had to download a tool, then go in to systems 32 and empty the temp folder.
As far as Malwarebytes, I have their free version on my desktop. I can't update that because I keep getting an error message.
As to what I'm running:
Vista Home Premium--- did not install SP1 because Acer said it might not be compatible, they are working on a fix. Something about a driver.
Computer is an Acer Q6600 dual quad processor, 2 GB of DDR2 memory, 500 SATA hard disk. I have over 1200 MB of memory space still free.
When I check the security status through the control panel I find that McAfee is turned off. When I click to turn it on, it tells me 1 or more error occurred, same for Malware protection. Windows defender is turned off. Windows firewall is off and McAfee's is on.
I'm running IE 8.0.6001
I have a dial-up connection, Netzero is my ISP
No registry cleaners, I don't play in the registry, can get into too much trouble if you don't know what you are doing, and I don't.
No PC accelerator programs either.
I did run Malwarebytes and it didn't find anything. Am running ESET right now
As to the Real Time Scan, it is set to "automatic". When I open properties to try to turn it on or change the settings I can't. RTS is on pause and nothing I do even, uninstall and reinstall it, changes that.
I'll let you know if ESET finds anything, but the last scan I did before I uninstalled it came up clean.
One of the Techs on Malwarebytes had me run something called "HiJackThis". I have the log from that if it would help. They are trying to help me find what is screwing up the update process for that program. That is an error code 732 if you are familiar with their software.
McAfee update is downloading something named vso_cnt. I don't know what that is, never saw it before. It could possible mess up the scan being run by ESET