257884 - Mcafee cannot install update

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[rick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Every time Mcafee Virus Scan tries to download an update, I get an error message
and have to go to the Mcafee web site. I am then told that Mcafee requires
Internet Explorer 5.5 or above to operate.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install firefox
2.uninstall Internet Explorer
3.have Mcafee Virus Scan



Expected Results:  
I wish to have the latest Mcafee updates

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This is a McAfee problem, not a Firefox problem.  There are a number of McAfee
bugs about their use of IE-only JS and ActiveX.

There's probably a dup of this bug already filed in TE.

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Which URL do you use for the update? See Bug 220612. Dupe?

You could use the SuperDAT update
http://download.mcafee.com/us/updates/superDat.asp (download works).

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

Based on your report it looks like you've uninstalled Internet Explorer. If this
is the case, then clearly if McAfee update requires IE5.5, then it's not going
to work. IIRC, you would have reverted back to IE4 (or IE5 if running Win98 SE),
which  is older than IE 5.5 This issue has nothing to do with Firefox.

I'm marking this bug as invalid, because Windows is always going to come with
IE. If the McAfee update engine requires the use of IE/ActiveX hooks to run
autoupdate, I really don't see that there is a problem. In fact, it makes
perfect sense.