Vista - Is McAfee the Antichrist?

12-08-2007

Possibly.

I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at boot.
Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner. And give
me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their email.

I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking any
vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no trace of
McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall, says McAfee's
firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's virus scanner is
ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as system software, there is
no McAfee software running.

I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center says:
Antichrist--er, McAfee.

Any opinion?

m

12-08-2007

Mikailis Mordaunt wrote:

Quote:

> Possibly.
>
> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at
> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus
> scanner. And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer
> their email.
>
> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry,
> yanking any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to
> be no trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under
> Firewall, says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it
> says McAfee's virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans
> running as system software, there is no McAfee software running.
>
> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center
> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee.
>
> Any opinion?
>
> m
>
>
>

I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as
running. It's a Vista thing.

--
Dave T.

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

12-08-2007

There is a fix and "Malke," on or about 10/1, offered it on this newsgroup.
Let me give you Malke's fix, quoted verbatim from Malke's post. I did it and
IT WORKS. Security Center no longer reports the Presence of the
Antichrist--er, McAfee.

QUOTE
winmgmt /verifyrepository [enter]

If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this command:

winmgmt /salvagerepository [enter]

The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands
to the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for
the services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may
have to run it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own.
Reboot your system.

If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do
the following from an elevated cmd prompt:

net stop winmgmt [enter]
cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter]
ren repository repository.old [enter]
net start winmgmt [enter]
UNQUOTE

"Dave T." <davey@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:RrH6j.52389$eY.45584@xxxxxx

Quote:

> Mikailis Mordaunt wrote:

Quote:

>> Possibly.
>>
>> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at
>> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner.
>> And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their email.
>>
>> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking
>> any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no
>> trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall,
>> says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's
>> virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as
>> system software, there is no McAfee software running.
>>
>> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center
>> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee.
>>
>> Any opinion?
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>>

> I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as running.
> It's a Vista thing.
>
> --
> Dave T.
>
> Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
> Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

12-08-2007

More than mcafee can be the antichrist on vista when your security centre
info get a little mucked up.

This will fix your problem and only display what's REALLY running on your
pc

Right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator.

Then type the following command:

winmgmt /verifyrepository

If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent",

type this command:

winmgmt /salvagerepository

The first time you run this it should fail:
" It will issue stop commands to the services causing it to fail. Just for
it to shutdown ". Run the command again. You actually may have to run it
couple
of times or more before it finally runs and completes on its own.

Restart your system.

"Mikailis Mordaunt" <spamoff@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0A4462D8-AF1E-49AE-807F-DB436D12F27A@xxxxxx

Quote:

> Possibly.
>
> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at
> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner.
> And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their email.
>
> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking
> any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no trace
> of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall, says
> McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's virus
> scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as system
> software, there is no McAfee software running.
>
> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center
> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee.
>
> Any opinion?
>
> m
>
>
>

**Brink** · 12-08-2007

Quote: Originally Posted by Dave T.

I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as
running. It's a Vista thing.

--
Dave T.

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

Hi Dave,

It sounds like you did not have a clean uninstall. You might try using the Norton Removal Tool to see if it will remove the last remnants of NAV.

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool

Shawn

12-09-2007

Mikailis Mordaunt wrote:

Quote:

>
>
> If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do
> the following from an elevated cmd prompt:
>
> net stop winmgmt [enter]
> cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter]
> ren repository repository.old [enter]
> net start winmgmt [enter]
> UNQUOTE
>

This did the trick 8-) . Thanks.
Dave T.

12-09-2007

Add to such information please proceed to this link
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555962

"Mikailis Mordaunt" <spamoff@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F7DE41BC-50C2-4A4A-85C4-4B080E29F31B@xxxxxx

Quote:

> There is a fix and "Malke," on or about 10/1, offered it on this
> newsgroup. Let me give you Malke's fix, quoted verbatim from Malke's post.
> I did it and IT WORKS. Security Center no longer reports the Presence of
> the Antichrist--er, McAfee.
>
> QUOTE
> winmgmt /verifyrepository [enter]
>
> If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this
> command:
>
> winmgmt /salvagerepository [enter]
>
> The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands
> to the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for
> the services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may
> have to run it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own.
> Reboot your system.
>
> If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do
> the following from an elevated cmd prompt:
>
> net stop winmgmt [enter]
> cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter]
> ren repository repository.old [enter]
> net start winmgmt [enter]
> UNQUOTE
>
>
> "Dave T." <davey@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:RrH6j.52389$eY.45584@xxxxxx

Quote:

>> Mikailis Mordaunt wrote:

Quote:

>>> Possibly.
>>>
>>> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at
>>> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner.
>>> And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their
>>> email.
>>>
>>> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking
>>> any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no
>>> trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall,
>>> says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's
>>> virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as
>>> system software, there is no McAfee software running.
>>>
>>> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center
>>> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee.
>>>
>>> Any opinion?
>>>
>>> m
>>>
>>>
>>>

>> I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as running.
>> It's a Vista thing.
>>
>> --
>> Dave T.
>>
>> Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
>> Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

>

12-09-2007

Milo (MSPSS) wrote:

Quote:

> Add to such information please proceed to this link
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555962
>
>
>

Thanks, Milo.

--
Dave T.

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

12-14-2007

Dave T. wrote:

Quote:

> Mikailis Mordaunt wrote:

Quote:

>> Possibly.
>>
>> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at
>> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus
>> scanner. And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer
>> their email.
>>
>> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry,
>> yanking any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to
>> be no trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under
>> Firewall, says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it
>> says McAfee's virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans
>> running as system software, there is no McAfee software running.
>>
>> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center
>> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee.
>>
>> Any opinion?
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>>

> I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as
> running. It's a Vista thing.
>

No. it's a Norton/Symantec thing. Check the Symantec site for
tools/procedures to manually remove their products.

--

Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

12-14-2007

Hank Arnold (MVP) wrote:

Quote:

> Dave T. wrote:

Quote:

>> I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as
>> running. It's a Vista thing.
>>

> No. it's a Norton/Symantec thing. Check the Symantec site for
> tools/procedures to manually remove their products.
>

When I removed NAV 3 months ago, I did so with the removal tool from
Symantec. Vista security said that it was still running until I forced a
refresh of the repository. Shouldn't Vista take care of that, or is
Norton to blame?
--
Dave T.

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

12-08-2007	#1 (permalink)
Mikailis Mordaunt n/a posts	Is McAfee the Antichrist? Possibly. I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner. And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their email. I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall, says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as system software, there is no McAfee software running. I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center says: Antichrist--er, McAfee. Any opinion? m
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12-08-2007	#2 (permalink)
Dave T. n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? Mikailis Mordaunt wrote: Quote: > Possibly. > > I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at > boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus > scanner. And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer > their email. > > I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, > yanking any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to > be no trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under > Firewall, says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it > says McAfee's virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans > running as system software, there is no McAfee software running. > > I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center > says: Antichrist--er, McAfee. > > Any opinion? > > m > > > I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as running. It's a Vista thing. -- Dave T. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
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12-08-2007	#3 (permalink)
Mikailis Mordaunt n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? There is a fix and "Malke," on or about 10/1, offered it on this newsgroup. Let me give you Malke's fix, quoted verbatim from Malke's post. I did it and IT WORKS. Security Center no longer reports the Presence of the Antichrist--er, McAfee. QUOTE winmgmt /verifyrepository [enter] If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this command: winmgmt /salvagerepository [enter] The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands to the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for the services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may have to run it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own. Reboot your system. If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do the following from an elevated cmd prompt: net stop winmgmt [enter] cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter] ren repository repository.old [enter] net start winmgmt [enter] UNQUOTE "Dave T." <davey@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:RrH6j.52389$eY.45584@xxxxxx Quote: > Mikailis Mordaunt wrote: Quote: >> Possibly. >> >> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at >> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner. >> And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their email. >> >> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking >> any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no >> trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall, >> says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's >> virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as >> system software, there is no McAfee software running. >> >> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center >> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee. >> >> Any opinion? >> >> m >> >> >> > I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as running. > It's a Vista thing. > > -- > Dave T. > > Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, > Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
My System Specs

12-08-2007	#4 (permalink)
Cyberhash n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? More than mcafee can be the antichrist on vista when your security centre info get a little mucked up. This will fix your problem and only display what's REALLY running on your pc Right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator. Then type the following command: winmgmt /verifyrepository If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", type this command: winmgmt /salvagerepository The first time you run this it should fail: " It will issue stop commands to the services causing it to fail. Just for it to shutdown ". Run the command again. You actually may have to run it couple of times or more before it finally runs and completes on its own. Restart your system. "Mikailis Mordaunt" <spamoff@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:0A4462D8-AF1E-49AE-807F-DB436D12F27A@xxxxxx Quote: > Possibly. > > I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at > boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner. > And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their email. > > I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking > any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no trace > of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall, says > McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's virus > scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as system > software, there is no McAfee software running. > > I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center > says: Antichrist--er, McAfee. > > Any opinion? > > m > > >
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12-08-2007	#5 (permalink)
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 26,045 posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? Quote: Originally Posted by Dave T. I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as running. It's a Vista thing. -- Dave T. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, Because then you won't have a leg to stand on. Hi Dave, It sounds like you did not have a clean uninstall. You might try using the Norton Removal Tool to see if it will remove the last remnants of NAV. Download and run the Norton Removal Tool Shawn
My System Specs

12-09-2007	#6 (permalink)
Dave T. n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? Mikailis Mordaunt wrote: Quote: > > > If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do > the following from an elevated cmd prompt: > > net stop winmgmt [enter] > cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter] > ren repository repository.old [enter] > net start winmgmt [enter] > UNQUOTE > This did the trick 8-) . Thanks. Dave T.
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12-09-2007	#7 (permalink)
Milo \(MSPSS\) n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? Add to such information please proceed to this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555962 "Mikailis Mordaunt" <spamoff@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:F7DE41BC-50C2-4A4A-85C4-4B080E29F31B@xxxxxx Quote: > There is a fix and "Malke," on or about 10/1, offered it on this > newsgroup. Let me give you Malke's fix, quoted verbatim from Malke's post. > I did it and IT WORKS. Security Center no longer reports the Presence of > the Antichrist--er, McAfee. > > QUOTE > winmgmt /verifyrepository [enter] > > If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this > command: > > winmgmt /salvagerepository [enter] > > The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands > to the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for > the services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may > have to run it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own. > Reboot your system. > > If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do > the following from an elevated cmd prompt: > > net stop winmgmt [enter] > cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter] > ren repository repository.old [enter] > net start winmgmt [enter] > UNQUOTE > > > "Dave T." <davey@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:RrH6j.52389$eY.45584@xxxxxx Quote: >> Mikailis Mordaunt wrote: Quote: >>> Possibly. >>> >>> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at >>> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus scanner. >>> And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer their >>> email. >>> >>> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, yanking >>> any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to be no >>> trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under Firewall, >>> says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it says McAfee's >>> virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans running as >>> system software, there is no McAfee software running. >>> >>> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center >>> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee. >>> >>> Any opinion? >>> >>> m >>> >>> >>> >> I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as running. >> It's a Vista thing. >> >> -- >> Dave T. >> >> Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, >> Because then you won't have a leg to stand on. >
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12-09-2007	#8 (permalink)
Dave T. n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? Milo (MSPSS) wrote: Quote: > Add to such information please proceed to this link > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555962 > > > Thanks, Milo. -- Dave T. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
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12-14-2007	#9 (permalink)
Hank Arnold (MVP) n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? Dave T. wrote: Quote: > Mikailis Mordaunt wrote: Quote: >> Possibly. >> >> I can't imagine any satanic force doing a better job crashing Vista at >> boot. Even Vista pointed the finger at McAfee's realtime virus >> scanner. And give me a refund? Hell--er, heck--they won't even answer >> their email. >> >> I used MCPR.EXE to remove McAfee and went through the registry, >> yanking any vreference to the Antichrist--er, McAfee. There appears to >> be no trace of McAfee on the system, and yet Security Center, under >> Firewall, says McAfee's firewall is ON. Under Malware Protection, it >> says McAfee's virus scanner is ON. Trust me, unless McAfee has trojans >> running as system software, there is no McAfee software running. >> >> I used regedit to nuke and lingering references. Still Security Center >> says: Antichrist--er, McAfee. >> >> Any opinion? >> >> m >> >> >> > I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as > running. It's a Vista thing. > No. it's a Norton/Symantec thing. Check the Symantec site for tools/procedures to manually remove their products. -- Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
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12-14-2007	#10 (permalink)
Dave T. n/a posts	Re: Is McAfee the Antichrist? Hank Arnold (MVP) wrote: Quote: > Dave T. wrote: Quote: Quote: >> I removed NAV from my system 3 months ago, yet it still shows as >> running. It's a Vista thing. >> > No. it's a Norton/Symantec thing. Check the Symantec site for > tools/procedures to manually remove their products. > When I removed NAV 3 months ago, I did so with the removal tool from Symantec. Vista security said that it was still running until I forced a refresh of the repository. Shouldn't Vista take care of that, or is Norton to blame? -- Dave T. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
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