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McAfee VirusScan eats RSView SE!

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Interesting discovery…RSView Studio SE uses an unfortunately named "launcher.exe" file. However, McAfee's virusscan console considers such a filename a violation of its Unwanted Program Policy and deletes it whenever it has a chance. Of course, with my company-managed computer, the automatic virus scan updates overwrite my console configuration that removed this file from the bad list. Waiting for IT…………………… Edited by pseudoquas

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Goto Rockwell's Knowledgebase and put "McAfee" in the "Search Text" field http://www.rockwellautomation.com/knowledgebase/

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Searching under McAfee in the Rockwell Knowledge base showed a lot of workarounds, exposing the activation/registration files that Rockwell works so hard to hide. I did find a workaround to using Launcher.exe. According to #24985, launcher does nothing more than display a splash screen and open vstudio.exe. Point your shortcut directly to vstudio and you should be fine. Ironic that the fix is a cheesy hack for the question posted in the knowlegebase (launcher.exe causes a fault in Windows), but actually very applicable to your problem (if it works). Edited by Nathan

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I did find that clicking on ‘vstudio.exe’ directly did launch the studio application. However, it did so after first launching the installer program, which I had to cancel prior to the launching of studio. If the cancel wasn’t immediately hit, then the installer would continue – eventually failing. What seems to work is renaming launcher.exe (to launcherh.exe … h for hide-from-mcafee!) and then renaming each relevant registry instance of launcher.exe to launcherh.exe. Thanks for your help on this!

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