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McAfee Virus Scan Causes Errors During Discovery Process

During the discovery of your environment, vScope utilizes VB script to perform certain functions. If you have MacAfee VirusScan installed on the machine running vScope, it might interfere with the discovery process. Symptoms may be error dialogs mentioning “cscript.exe” and faulting module ‘ScriptSn’.

Problem The following or similar error is displayed during the discovery process:

Problem Event Name:    BEX64 Application Name:    cscript.exe Application Version:    5.7.0.18005 Application Timestamp:    49e02b11 Fault Module Name:    ScriptSn.20120130135121.dll_unloaded Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp:    4d2ce476

Solution Disable the script scanning component of your antivirus software or disable the antivirus software completely.

Please refer to McAfee knowledge base for more information: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB71660