Topic: Modify Mcafee 4.x on NT to use AutoUpgrade

A lot of the limitations are not NAI's but a limitation/security of NT. When you install Mcafee, you are given the option of installing it to run under your choice of user account, or use the system account.

You can't use the system account if you want to schedule the autoupgrade because the system account can't access network resources.

You can set up Mcafee to use a USER account, but this user account will need to have local admin rights, and plus when the user changes their password, you will also need to update the account information for the Mcafee services.

What i did, was create a generic domain user account, modify Mcafee to run under this new domain user account, also granting this Mcafee account local admin rights, and logon on as a service right.

This gives Mcafee all of the local admin rights that it needs, plus the ability schedule autoupgrade to run from a network resource location. This eliminates any and all requirements from the user.

Bryce