Seriously bad interactions with McAfee

I have had a running battle with McAfee and its real-time scanning as well as general scan results for over a year now. The last straw: I am finding that when I create an executable (RELEASE) of one of my programs, it was deemed to be infected and was placed in quarantine. The CHECKMATE version of the same code was untouched. So there is something going on that is just not good. It goes along with my similar observation of Winteracter being deemed infected recently.

Even the Windows SDK tool "signtool.exe" was deemed to be infected.

I have been using McAfee for a very long time; maybe its time to do something different.

Suggestions?

Did you change your Antivirus?

Robert, thanks for asking.

Yes, I did. I went with the "standard" Windows Defender. Things run incredibly faster when I compile my entire project (4x at least).

And, no false virus reports. It seems to offer everything I need it to offer.

Bill

On the few occasions I have had a problem with virus and their ilk, a virus checker has been largely useless.

Robert, it is rare for a virus or malware to hit me.

I am very careful about where I wander and choose wisely from whom I will download.

That said, I have had occasion to mis-type a URL and have gone "down the rabbit hole". It is for those times that I am glad I had something to protect.

I think Defender is just fine.

A question: Are times being given without am/pm and not for the user's time zone? I glanced at the time stamp and that's what I think I am seeing. Personally, I'm OK with 24-hour time, and it is important (I think) to know the time zone of the stamp.

Bill

I mostly only use Defender. I also use the free copy of Malwarebytes, it doesn't seem to get in the way much.

I have set the date format to be the 24-hour format with the time-zone.