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McAfee AVERT W32/Conficker Stinger 10.0.1.537 brings you an effective tool which helps you remove the Conficker virus from your PC. To prepare for any trouble from the Conficker virus on April 1, McAfee now offers a special build of its standalone cleaning tool Stinger, which will be updated on a daily basis to include any undetected Conficker variants from the wild.

McAfee Virus Definitions 5676 provides you with the newest protection against computer threats. This is designed for manual update. You can also use the automatic update.

McAfee Rootkit Detective will proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system McAfee Rootkit Detective Beta is a program designed and developed by McAfee Avert Labs to proactively detect and clean rootkits that are running on the system.
McAfee Rootkit Detective should only be used by knowledgeable individuals at the direction of, and with the support of, a representative from McAfee Avert Labs or McAfee Technical Support. Improper usage of this tool could result in damage to your applications or operating system.
Main features:
- Designed to proactively detect the system objects like processes, files and registry that are hidden to the user
- Provides information about all running processes in the system
- Provides information about various system hooks like SSDT(System Service Descriptor Table) hooks, user/kernel IAT/EAT(Import/Export Address Table) hooks
- Allows the user to clean/remove the malicious objects from the system by renaming/deleting the hidden files/registry
- Allows the user to terminate the malicious processes
- Users can submit samples using the submission feature present in the tool
- Users can also collect the samples manually after renaming them and Avert Labs for further analysis
System requirements:
- Windows XP Home Edition with SP2
- Windows XP Professional Edition with SP2
- Windows 2000 with SP4
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows 2003 Server SP1
BETA KNOWN ISSUES
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect registry entries pertaining to McAfee Entercept Products if installed on your system.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect mfehidk.sys file pertaining to McAfee Antispyware Enterprise (Standalone) as a hooked service.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect IAT/EAT hooks in Windows 2000 SP4 system pointing to shim.dll.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect vsdatant.sys from Zone Alarm as hooked service for rootkit like behavior.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect Goback2k.sys as hooked service on system having Go Back software installed system for rootkit like behavior.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect fsndis5.sys as hooked service from F-Secure if F-Secure Internet Security Suite 2006 is installed on the system
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect klif.sys as hooked service from Kaspersky if Kaspersky Internet Security 2006 is installed on the system.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect FireTDS.sys as hooked service from McAfee if McAfee Desktop Firewall is installed on the system.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect Hidsys.sys as hooked service from McAfee if McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention is installed on the system.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect Service Name ZwCreateThread when VSE product is installed on the system.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will not run on Windows 2000 platforms when Kaspersky Internet Security 2006 is installed.
- McAfee Rootkit Detective will detect many IAT/EAT hooks and SSDT hooks of legitimate applications.

This patch will protect your computer from the I Love You virus. This virus is a VBS worm that mails itself to everyone in your address book. The infected email subject line is I Love You, and the attachment is loveletterforyou.txt.vbs. This virus has the ability to download an executable, which can steal passwords when it is run. To use this patch, simply unzip this file and place the EXTRA.DAT file in the McAfee VirusScan folder with the other DAT files. You must have McAfee VirusScan (95/98) to use this fix.

Running the McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool (MCPR.exe) removes all 2005, 2006 and 2007 versions of McAfee consumer products.
Affected Products:
- McAfee Security Center
- McAfee VirusScan
- McAfee Personal Firewall Plus
- McAfee Privacy Service
- McAfee SpamKiller
- McAfee Wireless Network Security
- McAfee SiteAdvisor
- McAfee Data Backup
- McAfee Network Manager
- McAfee Easy Network
- McAfee AntiSpyware
Using McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool
- Double click the MCPR.exe
- A Command Line window will be displayed, and then close automatically.
- Wait for a second Command Line window to be displayed. Note: Do not double-click MCPR.exe again, you may have to wait up to 1 minute for the next window to appear.
- After the second window appears, the program will begin the cleanup.
- Observe the installation, which could take several minutes. The following message will be displayed in the Command Line window: The machine must reboot to complete the un-installation. Reboot now? [y.n]
- Press Y on the keyboard.
- Wait for the computer to restart.
- All McAfee products are now removed from your computer.