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Virus security protection with W10
I have a HP desktop that I bought in late December with Windows 10. The computer came with a trial version of Mcafee and the trial version expired earlier this month. While I can't be sure, I think I installed Quicken 05 and MS Office shortly thereafter I bought the computer.
This week I discovered that Quicken was no longer working properly. After trying several times to get Quicken to work, I gave up and decided to reinstall the program. I've NEVER had a problem installing Quicken on several computers when I upgraded to newer models.
This time I just couldn't make it install. I kept seeing a "Virus & threat protection" popup on the screen which I disregarded, only to fail the installation one more time. I'm not sure if I removed Mcafee early in this process or not, but I finally did remove it from the computer. MS's Defender took over when I removed Mcaffe, but I had the same problem trying to install Quicken. I finally found myself in Setting where I turned off ALL virus protection and then I was able to install Quicken and other programs.
The popup I saw was...
Unauthorized changes blocked
Control folder access blocked C:\program...\quicken...
IF I had been signed in as the administrator, would I have received this block?