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Disable Access Protection from the McAfee Antivirus Virus Scan Console

Access Protection has to be disabled in the McAfee Antivirus Scan Console before installing VMware Tools in a Windows guest operating system. For more information, see the VMware Knowledge Base article https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1009965
  • Power on the virtual machine
  • Use McAfee Antivirus in Standard Mode
  1. Install VMware Tools before installing McAfee Antivirus on the Windows guest operating system.
    McAfee Antivirus will, however, prevent VMware Tools upgrade if run in Maximum Protection mode.
  2. Disable
    Access Protection
     from the McAfee Antivirus Virus Scan Console when either installing or upgrading VMware Tools.
    1. Select
      Start
      Programs
      McAfee
      Virus Scan Console
      .
    2. Right-click the
      Access Protection
       icon in the
      Tasks
       window and select
      Disable
      from the pop-up menu.
  • Install VMware Tools.
  • Re-activate
    Access Protection
     when your VMware Tools upgrade or installation is complete.

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