Hi Peecekeeper/Tony,
Thanks for getting back to me. I'm in Australia, so chatting, if you mean by phone?, is tough. My operating system is Windows 7 and the McF security center tells me I have version 11.6.
Looked in Services and don't see anything called base filtering engine.
Most grateful for anyd help in fixing registry problem.
John
I am in Australia as well and chatting free they give you an 1800 number when you fill out the service request details.
You need the techs to fix your registry as the base filtering engine and windows firewall have to be in the services list and running.
Call them and maybe a reinstall would fix this. Have you tried?
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS101331
I pinged Karthiks so he will probably Private message or email you to arrange time to fix the issue if you want to wait..
1 thing why are you still on 11.6? Who did you get your Mcafee from I assume 1 of the partners such as dell etc as 12.1 been out for 6 mths or more.
Hi Tony,
Thanks for getting back to me. I'll wait and see what Karthiks says today and then maybe try to reinstall later. As to my version, I just updated my sub with mcf, so maybe the old version is still running, though I thought it expired yesterday.
Cheers
John
Really your old version should have been removed then new version installed. MCPR does that but you need to remove via control; p[anel first as running MCPR the removal tool well does not remove the licence so Mcafee still thinks it is in use.
Hi Tony,
I installed/reinstalled new sub from Mcf website, and see that the firewall version is 12.6, but of course it's turned off. I've had a look at instructions to restore the Base Filtering Engine, as a first step to restoring the firewall, and thought to have a go at that - does not look too hard - after I have set a system restore point. Any thoughts there?
Cheers
John
John,
I have sent you a private message asking for some details, please reply back
Just reconfirming you got 12.6? Or 11.1. asking as 12.6 WAS in beta last I was told.
Message was edited by: Peacekeeper on 17/06/13 3:03:14 PMMy firewall also turns itself off. I Ihave McAfee Security Centre version 11.6, Virus Scan 15.6, Personal Firewall 12.6, Antispam 12.6, Quickclean and shredder 11.6 , Parental controls 13.6.
Windows firewall is on though. Windows Firewall and Base Filtering Engine are both in the 'Started' and 'Automatic' positions.
I tried the steps below but in step 4 "Start" was already set to have value '2'
If you are having issue of Firewall keeps off and cannot be turned on, please try following steps:
I don't know what else to try
All good now thanks to Karthiks, great guy, very helpful. My problem was that I had no BFE, which K downloaded and set up in the registry, and no windows firewall, which he also fixed. Once done McAfee firewall turned back on. so my problem was with windows and probably due to a trojan, which might have got in via Adobe. Don't know about that. My advice to you people with a similar prob is to view your services, via the start menu, look for BFE and if it ain't there, call for Kathiks.
If Karthiks does not contact best to call support as your issue not the same as jjohnf's . You seem to have the services so something else the cause here.
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