Re: McAfee messed my EccoProX file

Thanks. I will first try to see if I can make mcAfee work before I go
somewhere else.
 Will post what happens. Very frustrating.

The darn program is so good, that I like many others have a lot invested in
it. I have been using it since 1996 and still have to find a better
Personal information manager

Happy New Year

Bhushan
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On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 10:09 PM Alandlmc [email protected] [eccopro] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> I had the same issue with zonealarm, which uses the kapersky virus engine.
> ZA would not let me whitelist the Eccoext.exe file. ZA tech told me that I
> should contact kapersky and ask them to whitelist the file. You may have to
> contact McAfee if you can't create an exception. Often these programs have
> more than one layer of exceptions that all have to be created for the file,
> if that helps. BTW, ZA had worked with Ecco for years, seems to have fallen
> off the exception list for the major malware players.
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> Not sure if the (rather snarky) advice to be doing backups was really
> meant to address this problem. But when a virus checker program lists a
> file as malicious when you copy it back it just immediately quarantines the
> file so that is not a solution.
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> I tossed ZA in the tras!
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> h and use Webroot Security Anywhere instead, which works fine with ECCO
> extensions and is at least as well regarded in protection and known to be
> much less trouble free and light weight than McAffee.
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> Alan
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jan 1, 2017, at 9:48 PM, Steve Singer hogsmile-/[email protected] [eccopro] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> Try TrendMicro.
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> In addition to normal hourly backups you should copy a disk that will be a
> clean install -- it mirrors the entire HDD -- so you can swap that one in
> for the one that somehow got damaged.  You can add any missing files from
> those hourly backups.  Your entire system should be composed of several
> identical builds, preferably 4-monitor boxes, to facilitate it.
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> On Jan 1, 2017, at 20:11, Bhushan Kapur b.kapur-H217xnMUJC0sA/[email protected] [eccopro] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> Until about an hour ago my EccoProX was working fine then all of sudden
> the file EccoProX.exe  disappered from my desktop as well as my laptop. I
> tried to reinstall but did not work. After some digging I found the culprit
> - McAfee. I have had McAfee for over a year with no issues. I have been
> under the impression that McAfee was fine with EccoProX and was so up until
> a few hours ago. Not sure what changed.
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>  It appears that I have a lot of learning to do on how to add exceptions
> to McAfee. Very frustrating.
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> Have you experienced this?
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> Wish you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2017
>
> Bhushan
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