Mc Afee Virus Scan 8 - Problems with multi user XP Pro install

[DavidLeeRoth]

Hi,

I hope you guys can help. I've just bought McAfee Virusscan8 I logged into my home pc running win xp pro (I have admin permissions) and installed it. It seemed to work fine, it updated itself scanned and found no viruses.

My wife then logged in (she has a seperate account - member of users group), the security service console thingy(?) that came bundled with Virusscan8 told me that virusscan registration had expired and it needed to validate. My wife of course told it to validate and it said that she needed Admin permissions to be able do this. Now here's where it gets strange. I gave my wife admin permissions, she validated it and it worked fine.
I logged in shortly after and it then gave me the same message saying that the registration had expired and to validate!!

This seems to happen now when either of us log in. There must be some way around validating each time either of us log into the machine? I'd also like to stop my wife having admin permissions (she's completely computer illiterate).

Thanks guys,

Paul.

 

[bfralia]

That sounds like the consumer edition of vse 8. You're probably going to find most people here are using the corporate version.

Check out the McAfee Site

http://www.mcafee.com,

go to the home & home office page and click on the most asked questions. If that don't work, call or e-mail them.

 

[DavidLeeRoth]

Thanks Bfralia,

I tried contacting McAfee but they couldn't help and in fact they sent a *.reg file to help uninstall mcafee which mullered my system.

I'm now using Norton and having no probs.

cheers,