McAfee's scan32.exe runs itself

[kimiraikkonen]

Hi,
I have McAfee VirusScan 8 Enterprise but the problem is:

Although there are no schedued tasks, sometimes when computer is idle
or i'm doing smth, scan32.exe which is McAfee's on-demand scan module,
begins running at the background with a lot of CPU use and excessive
HDD activity. No dialog boxes appear. I've updated and completed last
scan properly.

But what is the reason of self-running of scan32.exe?

Thank you

[David H. Lipman]

From: "kimiraikkonen" <kimiraikkonen85@gmail.com>

| Hi,
| I have McAfee VirusScan 8 Enterprise but the problem is:
|
| Although there are no schedued tasks, sometimes when computer is idle
| or i'm doing smth, scan32.exe which is McAfee's on-demand scan module,
| begins running at the background with a lot of CPU use and excessive
| HDD activity. No dialog boxes appear. I've updated and completed last
| scan properly.
|
| But what is the reason of self-running of scan32.exe?
|
| Thank you

Are you connected to a corporate LAN ?

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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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[kimiraikkonen]

On Apr 11, 12:31 am, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...@Verizon.Net>
wrote:
> From: "kimiraikkonen" <kimiraikkone...@gmail.com>
>
> | Hi,
> | I have McAfee VirusScan 8 Enterprise but the problem is:
> |
> | Although there are no schedued tasks, sometimes when computer is idle
> | or i'm doing smth, scan32.exe which is McAfee's on-demand scan module,
> | begins running at the background with a lot of CPU use and excessive
> | HDD activity. No dialog boxes appear. I've updated and completed last
> | scan properly.
> |
> | But what is the reason of self-running of scan32.exe?
> |
> | Thank you
>
> Are you connected to a corporate LAN ?
>
> --
> Davehttp://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.htmlhttp://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

Hi Dave, No, I only use it in one computer inside my office. There's
no setting about this. Why?

[David H. Lipman]

From: "kimiraikkonen" <kimiraikkonen85@gmail.com>


|
| Hi Dave, No, I only use it in one computer inside my office. There's
| no setting about this. Why?

I anted to know in case you were in an envirobnemnt where ePO (ePolicy Orchestrator) was in
use. Thus a corporate policy may have been instituted to cause a McAfee Command Line
Scanner scan to be luanched. If it is a singlar computer not in a corporate environment I
can't see why the Command Line Scanner would be lauched. One would think the GUI scanner
would be launched.


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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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[kimiraikkonen]

On Apr 11, 11:59 pm, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...@Verizon.Net>
wrote:
> From: "kimiraikkonen" <kimiraikkone...@gmail.com>
>
> |
> | Hi Dave, No, I only use it in one computer inside my office. There's
> | no setting about this. Why?
>
> I anted to know in case you were in an envirobnemnt where ePO (ePolicy Orchestrator) was in
> use. Thus a corporate policy may have been instituted to cause a McAfee Command Line
> Scanner scan to be luanched. If it is a singlar computer not in a corporate environment I
> can't see why the Command Line Scanner would be lauched. One would think the GUI scanner
> would be launched.
>
> --
> Davehttp://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.htmlhttp://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

Hi Dave,
I couldn't find out what you suggested. Could you be more specific? In
Virus-Scan console of McAfee there are no settings related to auto-
scan except scheduling. SO?

[David H. Lipman]

From: "kimiraikkonen" <kimiraikkonen85@gmail.com>


|
| Hi Dave,
| I couldn't find out what you suggested. Could you be more specific? In
| Virus-Scan console of McAfee there are no settings related to auto-
| scan except scheduling. SO?

I'm sorry, I didn't make a suggestion, more of a comment.

The comment being the software would schedule a GUI based scan and not yuse the command line
scanner.

I am sorry for not being clearer.

I can't see a reason McAfee itself would schedule a command line scanner scan. As you noted
you checked the VirusScan Consile Scheduled tasks.

Have you checked the Scheduled Taks applet in Control Panel ?

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm