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by nvr33

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I recently enabled McAfee on a system. However, I found out the original site for downloads had changed from the server to a different FTP site. I had pulled the user from admin to power user. After doing this, the pc locked up and then the screenstarted flickering, then all of the open windows began to scroll. I rebooted to have the login screen flicker and scroll. Another tech told me the screen had done the same with him. He had reconfigured to the new FTP site and rebooted. However, a couple of user accounts were no longer on the machine. Is this due to the machine trying to pull down files from the wrong site?

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by dynoe

BECAREFUL, McAfee's Anti-Virus software (like any other i guess) is not 100% fool-proof. It could be that the system's where the FTP site had been changed had run malicious code prior to the change; therefore, the hacker could've re-routed your PC's McAfee Update prgram to it's FTP site to run further malicious code. I would un-install the product and re-install it, then update the .DATs using the default FTP site, and running a full VirusSCAN.

Also, it could be a unrelated issue, but it'sworth giving it a shot.

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