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Anti Malware Tools Trip Up IE7 Install
Published October 17th, 2006 in All Categories, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 7, Security
If you’re planning to deploy Internet Explorer 7 as soon as it becomes available later this month, 
hold it right there. You’ll first have to temporarily disable your anti-virus and anti spyware applications or it may not install properly.
Microsoft says that IE7’s setup process writes many registry keys in addition to copying files and because AV and anti-spyware apps are written such that they don’t allow "writes" to certain registry keys, you have to disable these apps during setup.
"Any registry key write that fails during setup will cause setup to fail and rollback changes," writes John Hrvatin, IE7 program manager in Microsoft’s IE blog. "We work around the problem in most instances by checking permissions at the beginning of setup, but many anti-malware programs monitor the key rather than change permissions." Dark Reading - Desktop Security - Anti-Malware Tools Trip Up IE7 Install - Security News Analysis
