How to remove McVSEscn error

McVSEscn.exe file information

The process McAfee VirusScan E-mail Scan Module belongs to the software McAfee VirusScan or 101 Bible Verses Screen Saver or America Online's Digital or PANTONE(R) colorist or Motivated Sellers or Porsche SportChrono or St. Martin's Guide to Writing or Registered System or Able2Doc Professional v or Rome - Total War(TM) Demo or Argus Digital Camera or ORDATA II and KORDATA v or Family Tree Maker or Comtec - ActiveX_VTX or Acoustica Effects Pack or LinPlug FreeAlpha or rgc:audio Triangle II or UnInstall Envy24 Family Audio or Encyclopaedia Britannica or Database Solutions Add-Ins or Virtual Moon Altas Image or mcvsescn.exe or SmartSound Quicktracks Plugin or Pocket Mechanic v or MicroStaff WINASPI or Manga Studio ShadeExporter or IDAutomation.com Linear or Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook or SimNet for Office or My Book Collection 1.0v or ATI MCE Transcode or Mjuice Components or rgc:audio sfz VSTi v or AGEIA PhysX Engines or SFS Development Environment or Microsoft SAPI TTS 5.1 Engine or Adobe Integrated Runtime or McVSEscn.exe by Networks Associates Technology, Inc (nai.com) or McAfee, Inc (www.mcafee.com).

Description: McVSEscn.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" or sometimes in a subfolder of the "My Files" folder - e.g. C:\Program Files\mcafee.com\vso\. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 483328 bytes (55% of all occurrence), 471097 bytes, 417849 bytes, 460336 bytes, 467001 bytes, 413753 bytes, 405561 bytes.
The file is not a Windows system file. The program is not visible. The file is able to record keyboard inputs. Therefore the technical security rating is 90% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as McVSEscn.exe, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the McVSEscn.exe process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

Links: McVSEscn.exe, McVSEscn.exe

can stop internet browser from working, you can turn it off and still be protected from viruses
  David  

cannot connect to internet without killing mcvsescn.exe
  khalid   (further information)

safe part of McAfee email scanner
  Michael  

Part of McAfee, no problems here....
   

Part of Mcafee antivirus, it's not dangerous until u got certain types of virus that makes him go nuts over outlook express and other utilities, just remove the virus and mcvsescn.exe will go back to his work
  Pipicchio  

conflict with outlook express
  Tenderland  

It may prevent you from printing from EPSON printer. Just close it, before you print.
  JohnSz  

McAfee Virus Scan for email.. works each time you try to download or read emails. not harmful but not essential. can be turned off using msconfig on the run command.
  Liam Anthony  

Direct quote from ZoneAlarm: McAfee VirusScan E-mail Scan Module is attempting to monitor user activities on this computer. If allowed it may try to track or log keystrokes (user input), mouse movements/clicks, web sites visited, and other user behaviors.
  Chris D.  

File of MCAFEE ANTIVIRUS
  KAISER  

It can be hijacked and used to actually SEND fake emails. I might add though, the chances of this happening are tiny (unless you browse the web with McAfee disabled). Also, good point...
  Badu  

Error pops up and I cancel it but otherwise OK, don't like the popup
  Robert  

Can consume all system resources, the displayed memory usage from within Task Manager is often not acurate.
  JBond  

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