As long as McAfee says your Computer is Secure you have nothing to worry. Please Open up Firewall Settings and Click "Restore Defaults" which will restore default settings in order to bring up Default Protection.
I would suggest you Run Auto-Runs tool and share the logs here to ensure no suspicious activity is going on in your machine. Kindly follow below steps
1. Goto live.sysinternals.com and download Autoruns (If SysInternals Live is Unavailable you can get the tool from Microsoft’s Technet site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/sysinternals/bb963902 )
2. Run the tool as Administrator
3. Wait for it to Finish Scanning at the bottom left (It should indicate that it is Ready)
4. Click File and Save the log
5. The file will be saved as AutoRuns Data *.arn. Grab the file and attach it in your next reply.
I've clicked restore defaults in McAfee firewall, and then gone into 'ports and system services' and closed down the remote assistance port and the remote desktop port.
autorun file attached.
edit - have now removed the attached file, I don't feel comfortable with details of my system in the public domain. Is there anyway of forwarding it to a McAfee employee privately, to check it.
Chinthanai Selvan P , is there any way we can agree on a time when you'll be online on here, (I'm in the UK), so I can post the autorun result file for you to save and then check it, and then I can remove it from the post, as I don't feel comfortable for safety and security, having details of my system on a forum in the public domain.
Cheers, I look forward to reading your findings.
I did review the logs and found that there is an Application from DELL running in the background called Stage Remote Manager. Please verify if you are using it and try removing the app if you are not using it. Check to see if the warning pop up again. Apart from this I did not see anything Suspicious in your PC.
Thanks for reviewing the logs.
I have never used Dell Stage Remote Manager, Just tried opening it, and the only option I get is 'Start Setup', so that isn't set up yet or in use on my system. The icon for Stage Remote Manager does appear in my 'hidden icons' in the task bar, but the actual software isn't set up or running.
It's an app for connecting my android mobile phone to the PC, to play music remotely,etc., that isn't set up or running, so can't see that being the problem.
Have just uninstalled it anyway, via control panel, as I'll never use it anyway.
Great you didn't find anything suspicious in the logs. That gives me some peace of mind.
Regards the actual warning my McAfee put up......Is there a possibility that someone connected to my wireless router signal, to 'piggy back' on my network, without actually connecting to my computer...... ie- if someone just connected to my router/network, would I get the 'warning another computer has just connected to this computer'.....or would the McAfee warning distinguish between a connection to my network or computer, by giving the warning, 'warning another computer has just connected to your network'?
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