McAfee affecting WGA (Heads up from Jurren)

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  Just in case you see people with WGA issues in forums, news groups etc....
  Last Saturday McAfee has released another version of their Home
  User/Consumer products. Customers with an online subscription are
  automagically updated... 
  
  Now the "Security Center" has McAfee's former program QuickClean build in.
  For a screen shot of the Security Center see:
  http://images.mcafee.com/common/media/images/content/screenshots/misp_summar
  y_600x444.gif
  at:
  http://us.mcafee.com/root/package.asp?pkgid=276
  
  The QuickClean program runs automagically on every 1st of each month. But it
  seems that it will remove the WGA too. There are lots of people now with
  this issue at the McAfee Support forums. 
  There's also another process running automagically and that is the
  Defragmenter job.
  
  These 2 jobs can be disabled in Security Center:
  To turn off the new features for scheduled tasks: 
  
  To Delete QuickClean default scheduled task: 
  Launch McAfee SecurityCenter > Click on Maintain Computer(Basic Menu) > Go
  to 'Task Scheduler' > Click 'Start' button > Select 'McAfee QuickClean'
  under 'Select operation to schedule:' combo box > Select 'McQcTask' under
  'Select an existing task' > Click 'Delete' > Click 'Yes'. 
  
  To Delete Defragmenter scheduled task: 
  Launch McAfee SecurityCenter > Click on Maintain Computer(Basic Menu) > Go
  to 'Task Scheduler' > Click 'Start' button > Select 'Disk Defragmenter'
  under 'Select operation to schedule:' combo box > Select 'McDefragTask'
  under 'Select an existing task' > Click 'Delete' > Click 'Yes'.
  
  See also:
  http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=85494
  
  If the people don't disable it there's a big chance that it might happen
  next month too.
  
  The WGA issue can be resolved by going to the Microsoft WGA site or for a
  download so it checks whether or not their Windows version is still genuine.
  
  
  -- 
  Jurren Bouman
  email: jubo@euronet.nl 

  Wednesday, August 2, 2006 8:03 PM