Add McAfee products to the list of security products that don't play well with latest

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When Microsoft released the monthly cumulative updates for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Server products, no one could imagine what a nightmare these patches would become for many system administrators.

Microsoft acknowledged two days later that something was not alright, and that the updates caused compatibility issues with certain Sophos and Avast security products. Microsoft added products by Avast and ArcaBit to the list of known issues later that week.

Users and the security companies reported that devices might fail to boot or appear frozen or locked for a long period of time. The only solution back then was to uninstall the updates to resolve the issue.

Today, Microsoft added products from another security company -- McAfee -- to the list of products that did not like the newly released update.

Patch notes for KB4493472 and KB4493446, the cumulative monthly rollup updates for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2, highlight the issue:

Microsoft and McAfee have identified an issue on devices with McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) Threat Prevention 10.x or McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (Host IPS) 8.0 installed. It may cause the system to have slow startup or become unresponsive at restart after installing this update.

Microsoft lists McAfee Security (ENS) Threat Prevention 10.x and McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention (Host IPS) 8.0 specifically, and links to McAfee support articles (here, and here).

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