MySQL Bugs: #39601: mysqldump fails when McAfee VirusScan is installed

Bug #39601	mysqldump fails when McAfee VirusScan is installed
Submitted:	23 Sep 2008 13:46	Modified:	24 Oct 2008 6:18
Reporter:	David Heath	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: General	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	5.0.67	OS:	Windows
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	mysqldump

Description:
This is not a new bug – but is the same as #25872 which has been closed (I entered a comment to the bug a few weeks ago to see if it could be re-opened and nothing has happened).

If McAfee is installed on a system we can not use mysqldump. The work around suggested was to get McAfee to disable certain directories.

This may work for small companies; however some of our clients are large multi-nationals, which do not like to disable their virus protection system, especially on a directory like c:\Windows\temp.

I am sure there must be a lot of other applications which write to the temp directory without causing an error. Hence, what is mysqldump doing? Can a workaround be found which does not involve disabling the virus protection?

Without a viable solution we will be forced to move to another DBMS.

How to repeat:
Please see original bug #25872 to see how to repeat.

Thank you for the report.

There is known McAfee bug described at https://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/615/3887379_f.SAL_Public.html Please check if you have latest VirusScan Enterprise 8.5i cumulative Patch installed and if not, install it and check if problem still exists.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".