>>Uninstall it and use MSE instead.
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>The goal is not to uninstall something everytime I ask a question. I will verify with them to see if there is a setting.

The goal is to fix your problem. Don't think for one second I'm joking or being facetious. I solve problems like this for a living, and the fastest way to fix your issue is to get rid of McAfee.

If you pay good money for an AV product you should expect it to make your life easier, not more difficult. Figure out how much time you've already wasted on this issue with that product, at your hourly rate.

If AV software screws up even once for me or my clients I immediately get rid of it and de-recommend it. McAfee has done that multiple times IME. Then there's the fact a McAfee utility is a common drive-by installation when installing things like Adobe Reader. MSE has never gotten in my way, even once and is hard to beat for price.

Now that McAfee is owned by Intel, Intel is talking about baking McAfee "technology" into the BIOS < shudder >

AV products hook deep into your file system and network stack. They need to be reliable, but sadly all too often are not. When you install AV you're installing a parasite, in the hopes it will stay out of your way and stop other parasites. The initial issue you reported (network scanning) is virus-like behaviour itself. Why would you spend money for a product that has that kind of attitude? Who knows what it will update itself with in the future?