How to disable Access Protection locally with VirusScan Enterprise

Technical Articles ID: KB52204
Last Modified: 2/28/2020

Environment

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (VSE) 8.x

Summary

The VSE Access Protection feature prevents unwanted changes to your computer by restricting access to specified ports, files and folders, shares, and registry key values. It also protects McAfee processes and services by preventing users from modifying or stopping them. Sometimes you might be needed to temporarily disable Access Protection to perform troubleshooting or implement workarounds provided by Technical Support.

NOTE: You must enable the on-access scanner (OAS) for the Access Protection feature to function.

Solution

To disable On-Access protection locally from a client:

IMPORTANT: If ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) manages the computer, this option will automatically be enabled during the next policy enforcement.

Disable Access Protection:
1. Click Start, Programs, McAfee, VirusScan Enterprise, VirusScan Console.
2. Right-click Access Protection and click Disable.
3. Leave the console open.
Make the changes advised in our Knowledge Base or by Technical Support.
Enable Access Protection:
1. Click Start, Programs, McAfee, VirusScan Enterprise, VirusScan Console.
2. Right-click Access Protection and click Enable.
3. Close the VirusScan console.

Related Information

For more information about Access Protection, see the VirusScan Enterprise Product Guide.

For McAfee product documents, go to the Enterprise Product Documentation portal at https://docs.mcafee.com.

Affected Products

VirusScan Enterprise 8.8

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