sqlite - Mcafee Problem

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Windows users, especially AOL customers, may find files in their C:\TEMP folder that contain an SQLite suffix. These files where put there by the McAfee Anti-Virus software that is running on their computer. The files are harmless. They may be safely deleted. To prevent their reappearance, one apparently needs to disable the McAfee Anti-Virus program.

SQLite is not itself a computer program or application. SQLite is a database library that is used by McAfee Anti-Virus (as well as countless other programs.) Mcafee does not compensate the SQLite development team for their use of SQLite. SQLite is public-domain software so Mcafee is fully within their rights to use SQLite without compensation - indeed the developers of SQLite encourage companies to use SQLite freely just as Mcafee is doing. But on the other hand, since the SQLite team has not been compensated in any way by Mcafee and has no control over nor access to Mcafee's software, the SQLite team cannot take any responsibility for what Mcafee does with the SQLite library.

See http://tinyurl.com/pobqu for additional information.