McAfee Firewall and Virus-scan
I am currently using Comodo Firewall and Shield Deluxe 2009 Anti-Virus software on Windows XP Home. My system information SIW and Belarc) tells me that I am running those along with McAfee Firewall and Anti-Virus as well. I have not used McAfee
for 4 or 5 years, and used McAfee removal tool back then. I have done C drive and registry searches and came up with nothing. Turning off the windows firewall in the security center, yields a message that McAfee reports it is not running and I
am not protected. Where is McAfee hiding??1 person got this answerI do too
April 23rd, 2010 1:36pm
Refresh Security Center's information:
Start>Run>cmd [enter]
net stop winmgmt [enter]
cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter]
ren repository repository.old [enter]
net start winmgmt [enter]
It may take a minute or so to complete while WMI rebuilds the database or reboot the computer.
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April 23rd, 2010 3:17pm
Am I to understand that McAfee is not running, but the Security Center is locked in on McAfee? Does SIW or belarc get it's info from the Security Center?
April 23rd, 2010 6:47pm
The repository can become corrupted and/or not refresh properly. I don't know where SIW or Belarc get their information but I suspect it is from the Security Center.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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April 24th, 2010 3:07am
Your recommendation worked. However, without using Windows security, how do i handle security updates? I have been installing them as required, but should I have been?
April 24th, 2010 2:39pm