Windows 7 Beta + McAfee = Bad News
Consumers downloading and test-driving the new Windows 7 beta are experiencing troubles when attempting to run McAfee Total Protection
According to this blog, PCs with Windows 7 Beta installed will not be able to run McAfee Total Protection or McAfee Antivirus... at least not at the moment. While the blog entry gave no specifics, the McAfee installer pops up with a warning, saying that the program does not support "the version of Windows installed on this machine." The installer then promptly refers the installer to the product documentation for a list of supported operating systems.
After a difficult launch, Microsoft was able to patch its download servers and offer the Windows 7 beta by Saturday afternoon after consumers overloaded the Microsoft pipelines. While no immediate complaints have popped up other than the McAfee installation problem, Windows 7 has already racked in mixed reviews, some claiming that the operating system is nothing more than a glorified service pack of the blandly-received Windows Vista, while others believe that Windows 7 is the operating system that Vista meant to be (but fell short).
Still, users of Internet Explorer 8 beta - now integrated into Windows 7 beta - should have seen the compatibility issue coming in regards to McAfee, as the antivirus program is one of many not working in harmony with Microsoft's latest browser. Strangely enough, and as pointed out by the blog, McAfee's browser-based Site Advisor Plus actually does work with both Windows 7 beta and Internet Explorer 8 Beta.
Hopefully, Microsoft and McAfee can iron out the incompatibility bugs before the Windows 7 Beta expires on August 1.
Apart from McAfee, I can't seem to be able to install ANY Nokia programs (PC Suite and the Nokia Software Updater) due to the same problem with the invalid windows version.
Programs such as BSPlayer do have issues but can be worked out.
Most of the time I can set up the compatibility mode but programs that don't recognize Windows 7 as being the correct version gives out some errors (0xc0000005 is the most common error) when set to run on compatibility mode.
I don't think McAfee is a good solution too! But in my tests Avira Antivir is more powerful than others products. I'm thinking, If you guys give it a chance and test it! maybe you love it like me!
It's Free and you can download it from here: http://www.free-av.com/
Good Luck
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My gut reaction is that this has nothing to do with how well 7 works or how well McAfee works, and everything to do with the fact that it's an XP/Vista installer that is refusing to run an on unexpected version of windows.
C'mon tomshardware....
So, I'm not really all that flussed when "very operating system specific" programs like security and disc imaging programs like Daemon Tools don't work with Windows 7.
I'm having a problem with NIS2009 where the 'active protection' will not work.... do I blame Microsoft or Symantec, since I am running Windows 7 on that system? Heck no... I see it as a learning experience and have informed Symantec of this problem, hoping that they will fix it.
No antivirus programs released at the time worked on it, all the way up to the final release candidate. By then many vendors including McAfee & Symantec had a Vista specific version of their security products working.
Fast forward to today. I'm not suprised at all that McAfee doesn't work even if the installer gives a "This version of the OS is not supported" error message. IE8 is still a mess (compare it to FireFox 3) and McAfee has a very big dependency on IE working properly. To be fair IE8 is the *absolute worst* aspect of Windows 7 - every other feature, in contrast, works amazingly well. Symantec Endpoint Protection (corporate version of Norton) v11 MR2/3/4 do not work either. There have been numerous UI (code) changes that would render SEP useless anyway.
In the coming months beta security products will be available. This is, after all a BETA and not meant for production use.
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