Release Notes McAfee Agent 4.6.0 Patch 2

Release Notes McAfee Agent 4.6.0 Patch 2
About this document
New Operating systems Support
New Language Support
Rating
Known Issues
Resolved Issue
Installation Instructions
Finding Product Documents
About this document
Released: August 22, 2012
Release Build for Windows: McAfee Agent 4.6.0.2935
Released: July 26, 2012
Release Build for Non Windows: McAfee Agent 4.6.0.2918
McAfee Agent Extension 4.6.0.370
Thank you for choosing this McAfee product. This document contains important information about the current release. We
strongly recommend that you read the entire document.
This release was developed for use with:
McAfee Data Loss Prevention Network 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2
McAfee Endpoint Encryption for Files and Folders 3.1.0 and 4.0
McAfee Endpoint Encryption for PC 6.1and 6.2
McAfee Encrypted USB 1.4 and 1.5
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 and 4.6
Group Shield Exchange 7.0.1 and 7.0.2
McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 7.5 and 7.6
McAfee Security for Domino on Windows 7.5
GTI Proxy 1.0
McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3
McAfee Anti-Spam for GroupShield 7.0
McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 7.0 and 8.0
McAfee Quarantine Manager 6.0 and 7.0
McAfee Security for Microsoft SharePoint 2.0 SP1 and 2.5
McAfee Security for Domino 7.5
McAfee Network Access Control 3.1 and 3.2.X
McAfee Policy Auditor 6.0 and 6.0.1
McAfee Risk Adviser 2.6 and 2.7
McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise 3.0.X and 3.5.X
McAfee Application Control 5.1.2 and 6.0
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i (with Antispyware Enterprise) and 8.8
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for SAP 1.0.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Storage 1.0.2

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Off Line Virtual Images 2.0.1 and 2.1
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise for Linux 1.6 and 1.7
McAfee End Point Encryption for Mac 1.1
McAfee End Point Encryption for Mac 6.2
McAfee Security for Mac 1.1
McAfee Security for Mac 1.2
McAfee VirusScan for Mac 9.1 and 9.2
McAfee Email and Web Gateway 5.6
McAfee Email Gateway 7.0 and 7.0.1
McAfee ePO Deep Command 1.0
McAfee Deep Defender 1.0 and 1.0.1
McAfee Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) 2.0 and 2.5
Make sure you have installed the correct version(s) before using this release.
New Operating systems Support in this Release
Operating Systems Processor/Hardware
· Intel Pentium
Windows 8 Release Preview
· Intel Celeron (recommended) or compatible
· x86, x64 or compatible
Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
Intel
· Power PC 5
AIX 7.1
· Power PC 6
· Power PC 7
For complete list of supported operating systems, see the Knowledge Base article KB51573
New Language Support in this Release
The Czech language is supported in this release.
Rating
McAfee recommends this release for all environments. This update should be applied at the earliest convenience.
For more information, see Ratings for Hotfixes and Patches in KnowledgeBase article KB51560.
Known Issues
For a listing of Known Issues specific to this release, see the KnowledgeBase article for McAfee Agent 4.6 Patch 2 Known
Issues –KB75516
Resolved Issues
· Issue – The MA 4.6 Patch 2 uninstall program provides an incorrect parameter to a Windows API. This may cause a

system crash on restart. (Reference: 791942)
Resolution – The MA 4.6 Patch 2 Repost uninstaller fixes this issue and the correct parameter is passed. Therefore if you
have MA 4.6 Patch 2 installed, upgrade to MA 4.6 Patch 2 Repost to solve the problem.
Important – If you have already uninstalled Patch 2, first run the MA 4.6.2 Uninstaller Fix program provided before
restarting the computer. The fix program will restore the missing signatures. Second, upgrade to MA 4.6 Patch 2 Repost.
· Issue – A faulting application on the frameworkservice.exe can occur when multiple actions or requests are occurring
over the agent's “wake up” port(Reference: 790403)
Resolution – McAfee Agent is now enhanced to prevent application faults when multiple actions or requests are occurring
over the agent's “wake up” port.
· Issue – In the McAfee agent policy, the event forwarding priority dropdown is inverted when the McAfee ePolicy
Orchestrator console is opened using Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 or 10. (Reference:737623)
Resolution – The event forwarding priority drop down is properly displayed. The changes were made to McAfee Agent
Extension to address the issue.
· Issue – The Sitelist Editor of McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange and the Autoupdate repository editor of VirusScan
Enterprise did not open when McAfee Agent 4.6 was in unmanaged mode. (Reference:735208)
Resolution – The Sitelist Editor of McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange and the Autoupdate repository editor of
VirusScan Enterprise open when the McAfee Agent is in unmanaged mode.
· Issue –The Use anonymous login option for Local ftp repository created through the McAfee Agent policy did not apply
on the client (Edit Auto update repository) because the McAfee agent extension used Anonymous for the user field
instead of an all-lower-case "anonymous". (Reference:705731)
Resolution – The Use anonymous login option for Local ftp repository created through the McAfee Agent policy applies
on the client (Edit Auto update repository) because the agent extension uses "anonymous" for the user field. The
changes were made to McAfee Agent Extension to address the issue.
· Issue – If the deployment task for the MOVE Agent was invoked via the Run Client Task now option, it was reported as
a failure even when the product was deployed successfully. (Reference:728782)
Resolution – The deployment task for the MOVE Agent invoked via the Run Client Task now option reports the
accurate installation status.
· Issue – The Allow End Users to update Security from the McAfee System Tray Menu was not applied until the first
policy enforcement occurred after service startup.(Reference:725744)
Resolution – The Allow End Users to update Security from the McAfee System Tray Menu is applied according to
the Agent Policy setting when the service starts.
· Issue – The scheduled Update task for McAfee Agent did not execute on schedule post update failure. (Reference:
742409)
Resolution – Post notification is sent to the dependent product when encountering an update failure, allowing subsequent
scheduled tasks to execute.
· Issue – The McAfee Agent did not attempt to connect to all the enabled agent handlers when number of agent handlers
was more than four. (Reference:743023)
Resolution – The McAfee Agent attempts to connect to all the enabled agent handlers.
· Issue – The McAfee Agent policy Select language used by agent was not applied after McAfee Agent was upgraded to
McAfee Agent 4.6 Patch 1. (Reference: 739292, 739323)
Resolution – The McAfee Agent policy Select language used by agent is applied when the McAfee Agent is upgraded.
· Issue – The McAfee Agent on non-windows platforms failed to send events to ePolicy Orchestrator when there was 5%
or less of total disk space. (Reference: 708795)
Resolution – The McAfee Agent sends events until the free disk space reaches 5% or 500mb, whichever is less.

· Issue – When using a McAfee Agent Embedded credential package, the agent failed to install when VirusScan
Enterprise 8.7 Patch 5 or VirusScan 8.8 Patch 1 was running on the system. (Reference: 733433)
Resolution – The McAfee Agent can install using an embedded credential package when VirusScan Enterprise 8.7 Patch 5
or VirusScan 8.8 Patch 1 is installed on the system.
· Issue – When the McAfee Agent update task schedule was configured with both randomization and Run missed tasks,
randomization did not occur on Windows Clients. (Reference: 741198)
Resolution – The McAfee Agent update task randomization now occurs when both randomization and Run missed tasks
are configured for Windows clients.
· Issue – The McAfee Agent installation failed when the system environmental variable "R_RSHLIB_LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
was defined and pointed to an incompatible encryption library. (Reference: 757700)
Resolution – The McAfee Agent installation succeeds because installer uses appropriate Windows API to add environment
variable.
· Issue – The DAT file installation was slowed by copying and deleting of DAT files used by the DAT installation scripts.
(Reference: 740407)
Resolution – McAfee Agent added support to provide future DAT file installation scripts the ability to rename files during
installation rather than copying the files to the new location and deleting the files from the old location.
· Issue – The McAfee Agent Windows clients attempted to execute Agent-to-Server Communication, updates and
deployments irrespective of the network state (For example network not reachable, network interface cards are not active
or not connected to network). (Reference: 756006)
Resolution – The McAfee Agent Windows clients do not attempt to execute Agent-to-Server Communication, updates
and deployments when there is not a reachable network (network not reachable, Network interface cards are not active or
not connected to network).
· Issue – The default McAfee Agent Policy Enforcement and Agent-to-Server Communication interval (ASCI) values were
not realistic for corporate environments.(Reference: 756014)
Resolution – When the McAfee Agent extension is installed (not upgraded):
- The default Policy Enforcement interval is now 60 minute for both My Default and Large Organization Policy.
- The default ASCI is 60 minutes for the My Default policy and 180 minutes for the Large Organization policy. The
changes are made to McAfee Agent Extension.
Important: The new default values are NOT applied upon a McAfee Agent Extension upgrade. The new default values are
only applied when McAfee Agent Extension 4.6 Patch 2 is newly installed.
· Issue – The client tasks configured to run At Logon were executed immediately when received by the client system.
(Reference: 769877)
Resolution – The client tasks configured to run At Logon are triggered only when user logs onto the client system.
Installation Instructions
The McAfee Agent 4.6.0 Product Guide, PD23185, provides instructions for installing or upgrading the ePolicy Orchestrator
software and the Agent Handler software, including a cluster environment configuration.
To see instructions for stand-alone installation or upgrade, using the windows command line, see KB article KB73389.
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