Windows 10: Warning!!! New Virus Attempt Style and a Question

I check emails that I think are fraudulent or virus/malware attempts. This morning I had something very unusual happen. I opened a suspicious email and it immediately tried to access my laptop. I didn't download any attachments. I simply opened the email. Luckily, I have Bitdefender. It is the best. This email tried over and over to access my laptop. Over and over Bitdefender blocked it and stated Suspicious connection blocked - Online Threat Prevention - msedge.exe attempted to establish a connection relying on an untrusted certificate to usps.kamehamehaa.com. We blocked the connection to ke

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McAffee Seems to be Blocking Attempts to Download Other Anti-Virus Programs!

I agree, and I listed the criteria for that small percentage in Post #46.

I never said it wasn't good. Nor did I say it didn't matter if it wasn't good since people need to be trained or have common sense anyway. I said training was required, and that is a business management and business IT responsibility - just as it is a parent's for their children.

And note that is regardless the user's (or admin's) anti-malware solution of choice.

I have also said many times that, regardless the anti-malware solution of choice, it is also necessary to always have a secondary scanner on hand to verify the user (again, always the weakest link in security) or the primary solution did not let something slip by. I typically recommend Malwarebytes for that.

A warning is one thing, blocking without the option to continue with the installation is another, and unacceptible issue completely. As I noted in my first post in this thread, I am certain this is a McAfee bug and will quickly be fixed - if it is not just a quirk for the notebook in question. Which brings me to these questions:

@newtekie1 - I see in your opening post you are preparing 2 Dell notebooks. But I don't see in your opening post that McAfee WebAdviser blocked the installation of Avast on both of those notebooks. It seems you only ran into this problem on the first notebook. Did the Avast install go smoothly on the second? Or did WebAdviser (1) not uninstall with the McAfee suite, and (2) did WebAdviser block Avast on the second notebook too?

Or did you just ensure WebAdviser was gone before attempting to install Avast on the second?

Just wondering if the problem was isolated to one notebook suggesting a quirk? Or both suggesting a trend/bug?

 

Virus and Threat Protection Warnings

Hi Penelope_AV

ETD_GetSMART.exe is HP Software and it is safe, that software is designed to check your hard drive for imminent failure and warn you

You can add that to the list of safe files in Controlled Folder Access to get rid of this warning

Open Windows Defender Security Center

Go to Virus & threat protection - Virus & threat protection settings

Scroll down to Controlled folder access

From there, you can add an app to the list of safe or allowed apps to prevent them from being blocked

ETD_GetSMART.exe is located in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Support Framework\Resources\HPActiveHealth\Executable Agent Data\_Shared\DiskCheck\

 

Virus warning

Hello I have just clean installed Windows 10 and before I got to moving up a version to 1809 that warning came up see pics
The first pic is the one to come up and if I click on download then I get the second warning to download some scanner.





Sorry about the quality but any ideas why this should come up on a clean install??