{"id":11,"date":"2010-04-21T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-04-21T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T15:47:00","slug":"mcafee-fix-for-killed-xp-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/mcafee-fix-for-killed-xp-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"McAfee fix for killed XP machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a fan of McAfee security and AV products and haven’t been for years. Their software has become a huge drain on system resources and worse, seems to get more false positives than actually stoping malicious software. I highly recommend Microsoft Security Essentials<\/a>. But if you are one of those that have had this issue I hope this helps.<\/p>\n

McAfee recently put out an update that literally killed many machines.<\/p>\n

If you are one of those people here is a possible solution.<\/p>\n

1. If your computer is forcing you to shutdown (you are getting an error with a countdown), go to Start – Run and type cmd. At the command prompt type ‘shutdown -a’ without the quotes. [This will abort the Windows shutdown.]<\/p>\n

2. Open up the McAfee console (Start -> Programs -> McAfee)<\/p>\n

3. Disable Access Protection and On-Access Scanner<\/p>\n

4. Double click your Quarantine Manager in that window, and restore the files there (right click on it and select restore).<\/p>\n

5. Go to your services console (right click on My Computer, select ‘Manage’, and click on the services in the left pane). Make sure both RPC (Remote Proceedure Call) services are running.<\/p>\n

6. Start (or restart if already running) the McAfee Framework service.<\/p>\n

7. Back in the McAfee console, select Tools -> Rollback DATs.<\/p>\n

8. Reboot and you should be all set.<\/p>\n

Here is McAfee’s own solution:<\/p>\n

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I am not a fan of McAfee security and AV products and haven’t been for years. Their software has become a huge drain on system resources and worse, seems to get more false positives than actually stoping malicious software. I highly recommend Microsoft Security Essentials. But if you are one of those that have had … Continue reading “McAfee fix for killed XP machines”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,20,24,13,1,17],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t