Here is the solution for a completely silent installation of McAfee VirusScan 10 (and McAfee VirusScan 9 as well, I think) without using AutoIt!

Simple Directions:

• Copy the X:\VSO\enu\ folder to your hard drive. Replace McAfee's setup.exe with my setup.exe (attached to this post). Just run setup.exe to silently install the software.
  

Technical How It Works:

1. Sets the value of the registry keys "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\AntiVirusDisableNotify" and "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\FirewallDisableNotify" to 1. This automatically makes McAfee the default security center, so it avoids at least one annoying dialog.
   
2. Creates the registry key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\McAfee.com\Virusscan Online\Installer\VSODownloadPath" to the current directory (in 8.3 DOS format!) to tell the installer where to find the files.
   
3. Executes "McAppIns.exe /v=3 /start=vsoins.ui::default.htm /hide=1" and waits until the process terminates
   
4. If "%ProgramFiles%\McAfee.com\VSO\mcvsshld.exe" does not exist, executes the same command again and waits until the process terminates. For some unknown reason, sometimes the McAfee setup program quits the first time it is executed. This ensure that VirusScan is installed.
   
5. Sets the value of optional registry keys to configure what is seen by VirusScan as a threat. For example, sets "HKLM\SOFTWARE\McAfee\VSCore\NVP\DetectPasswordCrackers" to 0.
   

setup.exe

Edited September 10, 200520 yr by Nick2588

can you explain what your exe (virusscan10.txt) technically does? do you just pass any switches or something else?

i have been playing around with it in http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=54778 but found no real solution yet.

Edited September 9, 200520 yr by eirogge

Try this same thing, maybe it will work for Personal Firewall Plus as well?

Run setup.exe and when the EULA appears, go to regedit and look for something like "HKLM\SOFTWARE\McAfee.com\Virusscan Online\Installer\VSODownloadPath" (only it will be under "Personal Firewall Plus" instead).

After you find the registry entry and save it to a .reg file, you can import it on your unattended CD by using a batch file. Then to install the firewall, you would do something like "McAppIns.exe /v=3 /start=vsoins.ui::default.htm /hide=1". Of course, you need to find "pfpins.ui" or whatever the equivilant is for Personal Firewall Plus instead of "vsoins.ui".

exactly the information i was searching for. gonna test this out now.

big thx!

edit: works great. the ui file for personal firewall is mpfins.ui btw.

Edited September 10, 200520 yr by eirogge

Hi!

I am wondering how you put that together to make firewall install. I've tried editing the setup.exe, but when it tried to set the mpfdownload path it only went as far as HKLM\SOFTWARE\...Installe, and didnt direct it to the correct path.

Thanks