Unable to stop McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise Access Protection

Thanks, but that is not a solution.  I want to keep the product, just turn off Access Protection.

I am perfectly happy with McAfee and have been for a few years now.  I just need to turn off this one component.

PS:  If you use Protection Pilot or ePO you need to ensure that it doesn't overwrite your locally defined exception.  Alternatively you can simply push the policy change from the PP/ePO console.

D@mn; forgot to say that the exception you need to add is the filename of the file that tries to establish the SMTP connection.  It should be easy enough to check the AccessProtectionLog.txt file to see which file was being blocked.

That worked, thanks!  I was actually looking for that setting earlier but I must've totally overlooked it :)

I am not running Protection Pilot so that is not a concern.

As a side note, I can get Access Protection to turn off and stay off on my workstation, but on the server it will not turn off?  Oh well, issue is solved, thanks.

Re: side note

I think you just needed to disable Access Protection

VirusScan Console
    Access Protection
        Untick 'Prevent McAfee services from being stopped'
        Untick 'Enable Access Protection'

If you read my first post, I already tried that.  The box rechecks itself and turns back on 5 minutes later.  I tried it at least a dozen times.

To allow the user to stop the McAfee services, you will need to modify the relevant registry key:
Select Start, Run and type regedit.
Click OK.
Locate:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McAfee\VSCore

In the screen on the right locate the key: LockDownEnabled.
To allow the services to be stopped, change the value for LockDownEnabled to 0.
To not allow the services to be stopped, set the value to 1.

FYI -- I have the same issue whereby when I perform a net stop command or using services.msc stop the service 'McAfee McShield' the service basically restarts automatically.
The registry key is set to value of 0
The check marks on the 'Enable Access Protection' and 'Prevent McAfee services from being stopped'  are off.

In my case I am looking to stop the services during backup operation. I use Computer Associates Brightstor. When the AV is running I loose significaint throughput.

I realize that their is an accepted soluiton, however, I do not believe that the problem was resolved with the solution accepted based on my results.

Found the magic fix you were looking for.

Mystery solved - others will find this information resourceful.

uncheck in General tab of On-Access Scan Properties 'Enalbe on-access scanning at system startup'
Make note that when the service is stopped the state is paused, you can use resume from the services.msc or use net continue command 'service'.