Advice Request McAfee Real Protect. Worth it?

[Nagisa]

As far as I undestood, it's a standalone behaviour blocker that comes prepackaged with McAfee Stinger. It's ~7 MB in size and doesn't consume much cpu. Is it worth to use it? Would it conflict with the WD's behaviour blocker?

 

[Behold Eck]

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McAfee's on-demand Stinger ADDS a new bit of real-time baggage

McAfee Stinger is (or was) a stand-alone, on-demand AV scanner. Nothing ran in real-time, which is the way I like it. However, a recent change to the...

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Regards Eck

 

[EndangeredPootis]

I checked it out and I have found no evidence of any sort of behavior blocker, nothing in its settings or user interface, nothing in its files, maybe its intentional, but I find it confusing.

 

[SeriousHoax]

I checked it out and I have found no evidence of any sort of behavior blocker, nothing in its settings or user interface, nothing in its files, maybe its intentional, but I find it confusing.

I just installed it. Real protect is not in the same folder as Stinger. After opening stinger it creates directory in "C:\Program Files\McAfee\Real Protect" and runs in the background and there's a icon in system tray which lets you check log, quarantine, etc.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Here's Real Protect in action. It detected the exe of Brave portable of portapps but this is a false positive. It couldn't stop the program from running though. Brave working fine before clicking on Clean so not sure how effective it is.

 

[Nagisa]

It couldn't stop the program from running though.

Yeah, it's normal. It doesn't stop the malware from running. It does only notifies the user.

 

[oldschool]

Yeah, it's normal. It doesn't stop the malware from running. It does only notifies the user.

Maybe it's a behavior modifier --> yours!

 

[ChoiceVoice]

it removes itself. i installed it a couple weeks ago and yesterday it disappeared. winpatrol notified me its startup was removed. so i ran stinger again to get it back.

It doesn't stop the malware from running. It does only notifies the user.

i don't think this is correct. it has a quarantine.

 

[Nagisa]

i don't think this is correct. it has a quarantine

I mean it doesn’t have ‘auto quarantine’ feature. It doesn’t block malware from running in the first place.

 

[fabiobr]

I just installed it. Real protect is not in the same folder as Stinger. After opening stinger it creates directory in "C:\Program Files\McAfee\Real Protect" and runs in the background and there's a icon in system tray which lets you check log, quarantine, etc.

Have you test it with ESET?

I'm worried about any conflicts.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Have you test it with ESET?

I'm worried about any conflicts.

I think I did back then and didn't have any conflict. But like I said, it couldn't stop the detected program from running after execution, only did after clicking quarantine. So, not worth it unless they changed this behavior now.