All Things Vu

So, I’ve got this software that I’ve downloaded and it won’t work without a “patch”.  The executuable file will ask me to register and provide a serial number.  I don’t want to do either.  So I downloaded a “patch” to fix that.  When I ran the “patch” my anti virus McaFee would quarantine the patch.   According to McaFee this patch is some kind Trojan/spy ware.  Go figure.  I tried restoring the file from the quarantine and it would show up in the folder.  As soon as I clicked on the patch the file would be be quarantine again and the patch wasn’t able to do it’s magic.

You can’t disable MacFee antivirus because that would defeat the whole purpose of an antivirus program.  To resolve this I can either uninstall Macfee and then re-install it after I ran the patch but that is too much work and too many reboots.  So the solution to this is I rebooted in Safe Mode.  Windows Vista safe mode somehow disabled MacFee real-time antivirus agent.  I ran the patch and it worked.  Now my software is working smothly without any “request”.  Haven’t tried on other system or antivirus software.  Let me know if this help you patch things up.

Tags: antivirus, Hack, patch

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