I think that this is an IE7 issue rather than a McAfee issue; but I'm not
sure. So, apologies if I erroneously posted this in the wrong place. I have
installed McAfee SiteAdvisor on my XP2 machine at work. It works fine on
Firefox 2. It seems to prevent IE7 from deleting browser history, etc.,
though. Those things just hang when I try to accomplish them with
SiteAdvisor installed. Once I uninstall SiteAdvisor, though, all works fine
in this regard. The reason that I'm thinking it is an IE issue is because
SiteAdvisor works fine in Firefox. I'd be happy to know either what's
happening in IE (and how to fix it) or a thought as to what's going wrong
with SiteAdvisor. Of course, I'd be most happy if any of you have
experienced the same scenario and discovered a reason and a fix. Thanks
much!

I think that it was a stand alone product. It installed in both IE and
Firefox. I may not have looked closely enough, but I didn't see any IE add
ons for SiteAdvisor. When I uninstalled it I used Control Panel==>Add/Remove
and it uninstalled it from both browsers.

"Leonard Grey" <Leonard@Grey.invalid> wrote in message
news:eN7JyvQmIHA.6032@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Did you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer or did
> you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Firefox?
>
> ---
> Leonard Grey
> Errare humanum est
>
> JTKirk wrote:
>> I think that this is an IE7 issue rather than a McAfee issue; but I'm not
>> sure. So, apologies if I erroneously posted this in the wrong place. I
>> have installed McAfee SiteAdvisor on my XP2 machine at work. It works
>> fine on Firefox 2. It seems to prevent IE7 from deleting browser history,
>> etc., though. Those things just hang when I try to accomplish them with
>> SiteAdvisor installed. Once I uninstall SiteAdvisor, though, all works
>> fine in this regard. The reason that I'm thinking it is an IE issue is
>> because SiteAdvisor works fine in Firefox. I'd be happy to know either
>> what's happening in IE (and how to fix it) or a thought as to what's
>> going wrong with SiteAdvisor. Of course, I'd be most happy if any of you
>> have experienced the same scenario and discovered a reason and a fix.
>> Thanks much!

JTKirk wrote:

> I think that it was a stand alone product.

No such thing. SiteAdvisor does not run as a separate process
independent of the browser. It runs as an add-on.

> It installed in both IE and Firefox.

Then the install program did not check which browser into which it was
being installed.

> I may not have looked closely enough, but I didn't see any IE add
> ons for SiteAdvisor. When I uninstalled it I used Control Panel==>Add/Remove
> and it uninstalled it from both browsers.

The link on the home page at www.siteadvisor.com selects whichever
version of its utility is appropriate for the browser that you used when
you connected to that page. Apparently you connected using Firefox and
then tried to install the Firefox version in both Firefox and IE. Even
when you click on the Download link to get to their download page, it
again checks which browser you are using and presents a download page
for THAT browser. So, for example, clicking on Download to go to that
page takes you to http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie.html. Notice
the "ie" in the URL. Stupidly they do NOT provide download links so you
can get both the IE and FireFox versions regardless of which browser you
used to connect their web site. So use the browser into which you
intend to install their software when visiting their site.

Did you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer or did
you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Firefox?

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

JTKirk wrote:
> I think that this is an IE7 issue rather than a McAfee issue; but I'm
> not sure. So, apologies if I erroneously posted this in the wrong place.
> I have installed McAfee SiteAdvisor on my XP2 machine at work. It works
> fine on Firefox 2. It seems to prevent IE7 from deleting browser
> history, etc., though. Those things just hang when I try to accomplish
> them with SiteAdvisor installed. Once I uninstall SiteAdvisor, though,
> all works fine in this regard. The reason that I'm thinking it is an IE
> issue is because SiteAdvisor works fine in Firefox. I'd be happy to know
> either what's happening in IE (and how to fix it) or a thought as to
> what's going wrong with SiteAdvisor. Of course, I'd be most happy if any
> of you have experienced the same scenario and discovered a reason and a
> fix. Thanks much!

"I may not have looked closely enough, but..."

Look again.

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

JTKirk wrote:
> I think that it was a stand alone product. It installed in both IE and
> Firefox. I may not have looked closely enough, but I didn't see any IE
> add ons for SiteAdvisor. When I uninstalled it I used Control
> Panel==>Add/Remove and it uninstalled it from both browsers.
>
> "Leonard Grey" <Leonard@Grey.invalid> wrote in message
> news:eN7JyvQmIHA.6032@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Did you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer or
>> did you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Firefox?
>>
>> ---
>> Leonard Grey
>> Errare humanum est
>>
>> JTKirk wrote:
>>> I think that this is an IE7 issue rather than a McAfee issue; but I'm
>>> not sure. So, apologies if I erroneously posted this in the wrong
>>> place. I have installed McAfee SiteAdvisor on my XP2 machine at work.
>>> It works fine on Firefox 2. It seems to prevent IE7 from deleting
>>> browser history, etc., though. Those things just hang when I try to
>>> accomplish them with SiteAdvisor installed. Once I uninstall
>>> SiteAdvisor, though, all works fine in this regard. The reason that
>>> I'm thinking it is an IE issue is because SiteAdvisor works fine in
>>> Firefox. I'd be happy to know either what's happening in IE (and how
>>> to fix it) or a thought as to what's going wrong with SiteAdvisor. Of
>>> course, I'd be most happy if any of you have experienced the same
>>> scenario and discovered a reason and a fix. Thanks much!
>

PBUAK.

Site Advisor (IE)
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie2.html

Site Advisor (FF)
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ff.html
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


JTKirk wrote:
> I think that it was a stand alone product. It installed in both IE and
> Firefox. I may not have looked closely enough, but I didn't see any IE add
> ons for SiteAdvisor. When I uninstalled it I used Control
> Panel==>Add/Remove
> and it uninstalled it from both browsers.
>
> "Leonard Grey" <Leonard@Grey.invalid> wrote in message
> news:eN7JyvQmIHA.6032@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Did you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer or did
>> you download the version of SiteAdvisor for Firefox?
>>
>> ---
>> Leonard Grey
>> Errare humanum est
>>
>> JTKirk wrote:
>>> I think that this is an IE7 issue rather than a McAfee issue; but I'm
>>> not
>>> sure. So, apologies if I erroneously posted this in the wrong place. I
>>> have installed McAfee SiteAdvisor on my XP2 machine at work. It works
>>> fine on Firefox 2. It seems to prevent IE7 from deleting browser
>>> history,
>>> etc., though. Those things just hang when I try to accomplish them with
>>> SiteAdvisor installed. Once I uninstall SiteAdvisor, though, all works
>>> fine in this regard. The reason that I'm thinking it is an IE issue is
>>> because SiteAdvisor works fine in Firefox. I'd be happy to know either
>>> what's happening in IE (and how to fix it) or a thought as to what's
>>> going wrong with SiteAdvisor. Of course, I'd be most happy if any of you
>>> have experienced the same scenario and discovered a reason and a fix.
>>> Thanks much!