McAfee Update and Networking Problem

Question

G'day guys   OK, like a good user I had autoupdates turned on for McAfee and last week it updated the latest from McAfee.   The problems then started. I went to their site and they had an announcement that there was a problem and to remove Mcafee and reinstall.   I removed Mcafee and now I have no Wifi and no Network!!! Their website is very bad - try and find an email address to send your problem to. Even the feedback section is no help! Their Australian site has been in contact and I hope will eventually provide something, but who knows!?   I have a DELL Inspiron Laptop (my second) which is two years old and XP SP2.   Essentially, Wireless tells me to start WZC service, but it is started.   I note that DHCP is continually in a state of 'Starting'.   Since this has happened, my machine takes about 6 minutes to completely boot up!   I have removed networking and reinstalled and I have manually tried starting and stopping etc the DHCP. I expect that Mcafee will tell me it is a Dell problem so that is why I thought I would try here  and see if anyone knows anything about this. I travel and work in China and need internet access and am relying on my Nokia at the moment.   I do not believe that this is a virus problem.   Any help will be greatly appreciated as I am getting very frustrated.

volcano11 · Answer

Have you tried using System Restore to go back to before the McAfee updates.  This is just another example that makes my so happy that I stopped using the McAfee (and Norton) garbage a few years ago.   Steve

harleyfreespiri · Answer

Steve, if you are not using mcafee or norton...what are you using?

volcano11 · Answer

I use Zone Alarm for a firewall and use several different antivirus programs on various machines.  I stay away from the do-all security suites.   Steve

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