First casualty of UAC

Posted: 12-19-2006, 11:08 PM

Gerry Hickman

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Hi,

I've not have any problems with UAC in general, but today I tested
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and there was a major problem with the
installation and the MSI did a roll back and that was that.

I'm guessing the issue was related to the installation of the low-level
drivers (filters) or Win32 services; UAC did not prompt, it just failed.
I tried running it as "Administrator", but no joy.

I then disabled UAC in Control Panel and suddenly it installed fine. Not
sure what's going on there.

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Jimmy Brush

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RE: First casualty of UAC

Posted: 12-20-2006, 02:23 AM

Sounds like the MSI was improperly coded.

UAC is simply a go-between between users and applications; it is not
automatic. Applications must know when they need higher privileges and then
request UAC to be displayed to the user.

- JB

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Re: First casualty of UAC

Posted: 12-20-2006, 06:53 PM

There is a beta version of McAfee..... available which gets past that
problem, AFAIK it's still in beta and I don't recall if it's publically
available or not.

In the meantime for some virus protection you could try AVG free edition or
Avast's free version unitll McAfee release their Vista compatible version
unless your happy with the way your McAfee version installed.

Colin T
"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've not have any problems with UAC in general, but today I tested McAfee
> VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and there was a major problem with the
> installation and the MSI did a roll back and that was that.
>
> I'm guessing the issue was related to the installation of the low-level
> drivers (filters) or Win32 services; UAC did not prompt, it just failed. I
> tried running it as "Administrator", but no joy.
>
> I then disabled UAC in Control Panel and suddenly it installed fine. Not
> sure what's going on there.
>
> --
> Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Gary G. Little

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Re: First casualty of UAC

Posted: 12-20-2006, 10:21 PM

Did you start the 8.5i install as an Admin? That's kind of impotant.

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<Colin Thompson> wrote in message
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> There is a beta version of McAfee..... available which gets past that
> problem, AFAIK it's still in beta and I don't recall if it's publically
> available or not.
>
> In the meantime for some virus protection you could try AVG free edition
> or Avast's free version unitll McAfee release their Vista compatible
> version unless your happy with the way your McAfee version installed.
>
> Colin T
> "Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23mEynK8IHHA.4384@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've not have any problems with UAC in general, but today I tested McAfee
>> VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and there was a major problem with the
>> installation and the MSI did a roll back and that was that.
>>
>> I'm guessing the issue was related to the installation of the low-level
>> drivers (filters) or Win32 services; UAC did not prompt, it just failed.
>> I tried running it as "Administrator", but no joy.
>>
>> I then disabled UAC in Control Panel and suddenly it installed fine. Not
>> sure what's going on there.
>>
>> --
>> Gerry Hickman (London UK)
>

Gerry Hickman

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Re: First casualty of UAC

Posted: 12-21-2006, 11:55 AM

Hi Gary,

I started it as Pseudo-Admin, it failed, I then used "Run as
Administrator" (what ever that means) and it still failed. I then turned
off UAC in CP and it worked.

Gary G. Little wrote:

> Did you start the 8.5i install as an Admin? That's kind of impotant.
>

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Gerry Hickman

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Re: First casualty of UAC

Posted: 12-21-2006, 11:56 AM

Hi Colin,

As far as I know 8.5i _is_ the official Vista version, are you saying
there's a BETA that's more recent than 8.5i?

Colin Thompson wrote:

> There is a beta version of McAfee..... available which gets past that
> problem, AFAIK it's still in beta and I don't recall if it's publically
> available or not.
>
> In the meantime for some virus protection you could try AVG free edition
> or Avast's free version unitll McAfee release their Vista compatible
> version unless your happy with the way your McAfee version installed.
>
> Colin T
> "Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:%23mEynK8IHHA.4384@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've not have any problems with UAC in general, but today I tested
>> McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and there was a major problem with
>> the installation and the MSI did a roll back and that was that.
>>
>> I'm guessing the issue was related to the installation of the
>> low-level drivers (filters) or Win32 services; UAC did not prompt, it
>> just failed. I tried running it as "Administrator", but no joy.
>>
>> I then disabled UAC in Control Panel and suddenly it installed fine.
>> Not sure what's going on there.
>>
>> --
>> Gerry Hickman (London UK)
>

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Jeff

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Re: First casualty of UAC

Posted: 12-21-2006, 02:21 PM

Gerry,

8.5i was in beta, but I used it as RC1 weeks ago, it's final now

Jeff

"Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:exl6acPJHHA.3268@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Hi Colin,
>
> As far as I know 8.5i _is_ the official Vista version, are you saying
> there's a BETA that's more recent than 8.5i?
>
> Colin Thompson wrote:
>> There is a beta version of McAfee..... available which gets past that
>> problem, AFAIK it's still in beta and I don't recall if it's publically
>> available or not.
>>
>> In the meantime for some virus protection you could try AVG free edition
>> or Avast's free version unitll McAfee release their Vista compatible
>> version unless your happy with the way your McAfee version installed.
>>
>> Colin T
>> "Gerry Hickman" <gerry666uk@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
>> news:%23mEynK8IHHA.4384@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've not have any problems with UAC in general, but today I tested
>>> McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i and there was a major problem with the
>>> installation and the MSI did a roll back and that was that.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing the issue was related to the installation of the low-level
>>> drivers (filters) or Win32 services; UAC did not prompt, it just failed.
>>> I tried running it as "Administrator", but no joy.
>>>
>>> I then disabled UAC in Control Panel and suddenly it installed fine. Not
>>> sure what's going on there.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gerry Hickman (London UK)
>>
>
>
> --
> Gerry Hickman (London UK)

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