Still unresolved. I contacted McAfee and they suggested removing McAfee using MCPR and other steps to completely remove and then re-install. Did all that and still receiving this error. Did a little more research and mferkdk is the procedure to scan for root bots. I can only conclude it's not working properly.
Wondering if anybody has any other suggestions before I throw in the towel and get another security suite. TIA!
I think perhaps you should start a new discussion under malware discussions with full details of what operating system and service pack plus details of your installed McAfee products current and any others you may have had in the past.
http://community.mcafee.com/community/security/malware_discussion/consumer
Message was edited by: Ex_Brit on 11/27/09 10:53 AMI had the same mferkdk issue on a Winows 7 Professionsal PC (X64), with an error message in the system even log that stated the service failed to start. I did a little research on Microsofts web site and found this support knowledge base http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812486 which was a simple fix to solve the issue on my system. I did not have any major errors prior to the fix, I just happened to check the event logs and saw that the above error had started to show up about once a day after I turned the system on and wanted to find out why, given that I had not made any software changes recently.
To resolve this issue, add quotation marks around the following entry in the Windows registry, where <ServiceName> is the name of the service:
The ImagePath entry contains the path of the executable file for the service. To add quotation marks around the ImagePath entry for a service:
So the fix is to add quotes around: "C:\Program Files\McAfee\VirusScan\mfehidin.exe", which references system32\drivers\mferkdk.sys path in the registry. Hope that may help others, I have not had any McAfee mferkdk errors in the last three days since adding the quotes. I have a Security center version 9.15, and Virus scan version 13.15, engine version 5301.4018 which came with my Dell PC.
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