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Updating McAfee VirusScan Home Edition

About Instant Updater

As technologies advance, we continually provide updates to McAfee software
products. To ensure the highest level of protection, you should always obtain
the latest version of your McAfee product.
Updating your software is simple using McAfee's Instant Updater. It is a
seamless process and requires minimal interaction on your part.
Instant Updater is also the mechanism used to register your product with
McAfee. In order to obtain product updates, you must register your product
with McAfee.

Why Do You Need to Update?

nNew features may be released for your McAfee product.
nProduct fixes are periodically available.
nNew product content is updated periodically.
nUpdates to anti-virus signature files are frequently available.

How Does the Updating Process Work?

Instant Updater allows you to obtai n and apply updates to your McAfee
products while connected to the Internet. If an update exists, you will receive
a notification. At that time, you can download and apply the updates to your
products.

Instant Updater features

nAuto Update is Instant Updater’s default setting.
Instant Updater silently checks for, and as appro priate, applies product
updates while you are connected to the Internet.
Occasionally, Instant Updater may ask you to restart your computer to
apply the updates. Auto Update checks for updates daily to ensure that
your McAfee product, product content, and related elements such as the
virus scan engine and DATs are current.