Since an update this week to McAfee real-time scan, I have had 60 customers call me to say there applications have mysteriously disappeared after launching them more than twice. On the third attempt, a message is produced saying the associated link could not be found. On going to the source location, the exe has gone.
It would appear that McAfee sees the WebUpdate facility as a threat and therefore removes the threat. I have had to work out how to exclude the files from real-time scanning for each of these customers.
Can you think of any reason why McAfee suddenly decided that apps unchanged in 6 months have suddenly become a threat? They do do a update version check at launch, but it hasn't been an issue before.
Indeed it is further complicated in development as on the third start, my debug apps also get quarantined, remove WebUpdate and the app stays left alone