How to turn off McAfee programmatically

I am running McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i on my Windows 7 machine.

I am writing this utility to configure 开发者_开发百科McAfee. Now how do I turn off McAfee programmatically (using C++ or C#)?

The only ways I can do it right now are:

• Manually opening the McAfee Virusshield icon from the system tray and then selecting Exit.

• Run a command prompt under SYSTEM account (using System internals tool psexec) and then issue the command "sc stop McShield"

I guess the point of virus scanners is that they CANNOT be switched off by other software (at least not easily)

Right click on the VShield icon in the system tray and choose Manage features and the VirusScan Enterprise Double click on Access Protection to get to the properties Un-check the option for "Prevent McAfee services from being stopped" You should now be able to stop the McAfee services