Re: No Internet Access - McAfee Related
Originally Posted by
Twizard
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I constantly get warnings that both McAfee & Windows Firewall are switched off! drives you up the wall! Usually it happens just as I'm about to pay for something which is worrying.
When a security suite is installed it will usually disable the Windows firewall and take over the task.
Some security suites seem to have difficulty registering with the Windows Action Centre. The result is that it reports the security suite's protections aren't working when they really are.
Ways to check if the protections are switched on or off:
* Open the security suite and see whether it says it's working or not.
* Look in Task Manager to see if the security suite's processes are running. If the process isn't plainly listed as 'mcafee' there will usually be a hint in the process names that will let you tie it/them to the security suite.
If both of those check out, then it's likely that the firewall and other protections provided by the security suite are working despite what the Action Centre messages are.
The message that the Windows firewall is not running is likely to be true because the security suite will have correctly disabled it.
The above is a possibility that probably needs to be checked out before thinking that protections aren't working.
I know it can happen with Bitdefender and Norton. I've been running Bitdefender Internet Security for almost a year now and this is the only problem experienced with it. Seems to be OK recently though.
If you go to the forums for particular security suites (including McAfee) and type 'Action Center' or 'Windows Action Center' into their search box, there are a number of threads to be found about this problem.