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Will TunnelBuilder work with Norton or McAfee Antivirus software?

April 26, 2017antivirus McAfee Norton Software tunnelbuilder

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Will TunnelBuilder work with Norton or McAfee Antivirus software?

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Yes, if used carefully. The latest versions of Norton and McAfee have a feature for checking on incoming Internet activity. They do this by monitoring the WInsock api in such a manner that it will return errors when using TunnelBuilder and other Winsock shell-based software. This could result in WBHook32 GPFs or Blue screen crashes from my Antivirus software. You can get around this problem (and improve your performance with minimal risk to security by doing this: For McAfee 4.0 and later: Use the VSheild Control Panel to bring up the configuration panel. Leave the normal System scan and Secirutiy scanning tabs as configured. Select and modify the following which are set by default. • Email Scan: uncheck “Enable Scanning of Email attachments” • Download Scan: uncheck “Enable Internet Download scanning” • Internet Filter: uncheck “Enable Java and ActiveX filter” For Norton 5.0 Antivirus: Configure Options to not look at the Winsock files. Set exclusions to WINSOC*.