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How to turn off McAfee Programatically

I am running McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i on my Windows 7 machine.

I am writing this utility to configure McAfee. Now how do i turn off McAfee programatically (using c++ or c#)?

The only ways i can do it right now are :

  • Manually opening the McAfee Virusshield icon from the system tray and then selecting Exit.

  • Run a command prompt under SYSTEM account (using System internals tool psexec) and then issue the command "sc stop McShield"

+7  A: 

I guess the point of virus scanners is that they CANNOT be switched off by other software (at least not easily)

devio  2010-02-23 17:58:06
If you can run as admin you can do anything...
thijs  2010-02-23 18:00:19
Definitely. Antivirus software puts a lot of effort into preventing other programs from disabling it.
MightyE  2010-02-23 18:00:32
@thijs It is not possible even when i am running as admin. I need to run under SYSTEM account(something which my program can't afford) to accomplish that.
Santhosh  2010-02-23 18:05:39
After several trials, it really seems that it is not possible to turn off McAfee 8.7i programatically;
Santhosh  2010-09-09 09:05:44

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