Why is McAfeee VSheild crashing?

[Macro2]

From a cold boot I get the following when "VShield" appears on the screen.

Illegal opperaton window pops up.
details...

VSHWIN32 caused an invalid page fault in
module VSHWIN32.EXE at 0167:004020ef.
Registers:
EAX=006ad2b8 CS=0167 EIP=004020ef EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=006acfd8 EBP=00000001
ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=2f0f
EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=bff555a7 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 46 18 83 c4 20 3b c3 74 6a 8d 44 24 0c 6a 42
Stack dump:
006ad2b8 006ad048 00000010 00400000 006ad070 00000028 006ad048 00000028 006afba8 006af260 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000




Also get it when I launch some apps. Apparently when McAfee tries to scan them. It crashes.

Everything worked fine until I DLed Exact Audio Copy .9 prebeta and extracted it into it's own file. This is a stand alone program.
The other thing I did is install a CD Burner. No software for it yet.
Other than that...nothing different.

Any ideas?

PS...The McAfee viruscan is part of McAfee Office.

Mac

 

[Tripleshot]

McAfee has crashed 6 Hdd's on me and I will never recommend them to anyone again.:| Go Norton Anti Virus.

 

[tai4ji2x]

indeed. mcafee has been horrible to deal with. many of my friends' computers came bundled with it, and it was nothing but trouble. i steered them all to norton in due time. not that i particularly like norton the company. just that NAV has been the least problematic in my experience (i've had a few bad experiences, but not many).

 

[Shockwave]

Another agree....McAfee blows chunks, go with Norton

 

[John]

McAfee is a virus in itself.

 

[celeritas]

I use VirusScan 4.5SP1 in a corporate environment, and I've had very few problems with it; all were solved by DAT updates or a cursory search through VirusScan's message boards...

My site was the only one in my company to have weekly autoupgrades configured for all PCs, giving users the latest engine, virus defs, etc. Not so coincidentally, mine was the only site that did not propagate the I love you, NakedWife, Melissa, etc. infections.

I didn't like v5.x Consumer version at all, though.

 

[Macro2]

Is there any way to uninstall McAfee Viruscan without screwing up the HD and having to reformat/reinstall?