• Getting the McAfee Setup files

• Installing McAfee from the setup files

• Updating the scan engine and virus files immediately after installing McAfee

• Configuring McAfee

• Maintaining McAfee updates

• Doing an On-Demand Scan of your entire computer

• Open Internet Explorer
• Go to: https://mail.schreiner.edu/mcafee
  • (note the required "s" in https://)
• Enter your Schreiner user name and password, then click "OK". (note: the second time you type your username, in the screen where you see both blanks at once, one for username and one for password, you may need to type it with campus and a backslash before your username. Like, if your username were SRWilkins, you would type campus\SRWilkins.)
• This takes you to a page of Schreiner University McAfee downloads
• Right-click "Virus Scan 8.5i" (for Windows Vista, XP, 2000, or NT--for older versions of Windows, you should be reading a different page: [go here]
• Click on "Save Target As…"
• the Desktop is the default location to save the file-- leave it there
• Click "Save" -- if the Save As window does not go away by itself when finished, Click "Close"
• "Close" back to the Desktop
• Double-click the setup.exe  icon on the Desktop (this is the file you just saved)
• Continue with steps below

• Put the CD into your CD ROM drive
• The contents of the CD may display automatically after a few seconds.
• If they do not, then get into Windows Explorer
  • Right-click the "Start" button
  • in the little pop-up list, click "Explore"
  • Scroll the left side up to the top and click the (-) sign beside the C: drive
• Scroll the left side (if necessary) till you can see the CD ROM drive. It should show as McAfee_5044 (D:) or something about like that, (the 4 digit number may be larger) with a (+) beside it. Click on the (+).
• That should drop down several folders. Find and click on a folder like VirusScan8.5.0.
• On the right, double-click the file setup.exe
• continue with steps below

• After you  double-click Setup.exe -- possibly wait a while for it to prepare itself
• If you already have a previous version of McAfee Antivirus, you will get a box saying that it must be removed before setup can continue. Click the "Yes" box.
• IMPORTANT: In the box about accepting the End User License Agreement, Near the top, under the words "License expiry type", there is a box with a little triangle at the right end. Click the triangle, and when the list drops down Click "Perpetual" instead of the one year or two year choices.
• Click "I Accept" and "OK"
• Keep Typical, and click "Next"
• Click "Install"
• Remove checks from both boxes--"Update now" and "Run on-demand scan". (You will updatefrom a separate file after the installation, and there is no point in scanning until the files are updated.)
• Click "Finish"
• Allow it to reboot if it wants to, otherwise close windows back to Desk Top

• These steps you should do just once, right after you have installed McAfee as above.
• Find and run the latest "superdat file" provided either on the Schreiner website or the CD.
  •  Use the same steps to get to that source as you did before, to get the installation file. (i.e. either at https://mail.schreiner.edu/mcafee or the McAfee CD we handed you)
    • If from the Internet, the link to the file will be on the same page as the source files.
    • If from a CD, the file will be in a folder like SDAT. On the left, side, click the folder, and see the file on the right side.
  • The file will have a name like "superdat.exe".
  • Double-click the file, and it will run the update automatically
  • You can verify success as follows:
    • Right-click the McAfee icon in the system tray (the shield with the V on it, located in the system tray, lower right of your screen, near the time-of-day clock display)
    • click "About VirusScan Enterprise"
    • observe that the 4-digit number shown for the virus definitions files is the same as the 4-digits in the filename you double-clicked (4686 or greater instead of 4382 from the original install) and the Scan engine version is 4400 instead of the 4320 from the original install).

This version of VirusScan installs with pretty good defaults. You may want to follow the steps below to choose the time of day for automatic updates:

• Right-click the McAfee icon in the system tray.
• Click on "Virus Scan Console"
• Double click "Auto update"
• Click "Schedule" at the upper right
• Click the Schedule tab at the  top
• Schedule Task: Choose "Daily"
• Start Time: Choose a time when you are usually on-line
• Leave checks in boxes
• Click OK and Click OK again
• Close to Desk Top

 

• Even though you have set McAfee to update the virus files automatically, it could happen that your computer is not on or connected to the Internet at the times set for automatic updates, so you may need to "take care of it" yourself.
• McAfee normally puts out new virus files each Wednesday (evening). When serious new viruses appear, they sometime put out another new virus file immediately. You should check the version of your virus files each week about Thursday and update if they are more than a week old. And it doesn't hurt to just manually update every few days, "just in case". It's quick and easy...
• To check the version of your virus files:
  • Right-click the McAfee icon in the system tray.
  • Click "About Virus Scan Enterprise"
  • Note the date after "Created On".  If this date is more than a week old, do manual update.
• To update your virus files manually:
  • Right-click the McAfee icon in the system tray.
  • Click "Update Now", and it will do it.

• This is slow (20 minutes, an hour-and-a-half--who knows? It depends on how many files are on you computer, how fast your computer is, etc.) Plan on doing it at a time when you can start the process and leave the computer alone for an extended time (maybe just before you go to sleep, or leave for classes, or some such).
• Right-click the McAfee icon in the system tray.
• In the pop-up list, click "On-Demand Scan..."
• Keep all the default settings.
• Click the "Scan Now" button, and let it work for a while.
• Hopefully, it will find no "viruses".
• If it finds and cleans or deletes virus-infected files, you should restart the computer and do another on-demand scan to be sure there are no left-over infected files.