How to whitelist Salad in McAfee

1. Uninstall Salad

Uninstall Salad, and all of its associated files and folders

2. Restart your computer

This will finalize the uninstallation of Salad, as it does with most programs that require drivers to run.

3. Reinstall Salad

Navigate in your internet browser to www.salad.io and re-download the installation .exe, and when the installation finishes, be sure to uncheck the “Run Salad” checkbox.

4. Open McAfee

This will be the main screen you are presented within McAfee, and is your base of virus-fighting operations.

5.Navigate to settings

To open the settings of McAfee, select the little on the upper-right-corner of the app and select ‘Real time scanning’ from the drop down list.

6. Click on ‘Excluded Files’

After you have clicked on the ‘Real-Time Scanning’ option, a new window will appear. From that window, select the ‘Excluded Files’ option as pictured below-

7. Click on ‘Add Files’ 

After clicking on ‘Excluded Files’, click on ‘Add files’ as pictured below-

8. Adding Salad as an Exclusion

After clicking on ‘Add file’, you’ll want to navigate to the Salad installation folder and select it, the default installation path is “C:\Users\YourUserHere\AppData\Roaming\Salad” and from that folder, select any .exe files and click ‘Open’. As McAfee doesn’t support folder exclusion you will need to add any file that has .exe as an exclusion.

9. Click Add

Once you’ve found your Salad installation folder along with the .exe files and clicked it, hit ‘Open’, and it will bring you back to the main McAfee Exclusion whitelist page with your newly added exclusions. Repeat this process for all remaining files.

10 . Run Salad

Let Salad run for at least 30 minutes after setting up the whitelist. Contact support if this issue persists