Mcafee Mystery Entries in the Registry?

[W. Watson]

After using McAfee's standard document to remove the firewall, "Firewall 4 Manual
Removal (All Windows versions)", I found it did not remove all traces of the
firewall. Several directories remain, and one directory contains about 50 files.
Probably I can just delete them directly. A search of the registry puzzled me too. A
search of the registry showed perhaps 100 matches on "mcafee". I checked the keys and
values in about six of them and could not find "mcafee" embedded there. Any clues as
to what that might be about?
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Malke]

After using McAfee's standard document to remove the firewall,
"Firewall 4 Manual Removal (All Windows versions)", I found it did not
remove all traces of the firewall. Several directories remain, and one
directory contains about 50 files. Probably I can just delete them
directly. A search of the registry puzzled me too. A search of the
registry showed perhaps 100 matches on "mcafee". I checked the keys
and values in about six of them and could not find "mcafee" embedded
there. Any clues as to what that might be about?

Bad installer. Bad uninstaller. Sloppy programming. Delete the
directories. Look in the registry for "Network Associates" entries.

Malke

 

[W. Watson]

W. Watson wrote:

....


Bad installer. Bad uninstaller. Sloppy programming. Delete the
directories. Look in the registry for "Network Associates" entries.

Malke

Nothing found for that string either with or without the quotes. I'm using regedit,
but isn't there a regedit2 or regedt2. What's the difference vs plain regedit?

Here's are some entries found with mcafee search:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D7D6E084-DCCD-11d0-AA4B-0060970DEBAE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CertificateAuthority.ServerPolicy.1
CLSID value default REG_SZ data=A000926-FFBE blah, blah
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
....
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LicenseService
....
Lots of stuff. Almost endless.

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Malke]

Nothing found for that string either with or without the quotes. I'm
using regedit, but isn't there a regedit2 or regedt2. What's the
difference vs plain regedit?

Here's are some entries found with mcafee search:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D7D6E084-DCCD-11d0-AA4B-0060970DEBAE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CertificateAuthority.ServerPolicy.1
CLSID value default REG_SZ data=A000926-FFBE blah, blah
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LicenseService
...
Lots of stuff. Almost endless.

No, just use Regedit. But why are you messing about with this anyway?
Are you having difficulty doing something because of incomplete Mcafee
uninstallation? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Leave it alone.

You've been posting in several groups about difficulties you've had with
networking Windows (and I think I saw you in a Linux newsgroup, too)
and I think you've got caught up in some minutiae that is probably
unrelated. If this post is related to your difficulty in getting your
network set up, you might consider having a local professional or
knowledgeable friend come over and vet your network. It's very
difficult to properly troubleshoot networking problems via Usenet.
Someone coming on-site might take one look and totally get what your
problem is.

Malke

 

[W. Watson]

W. Watson wrote:




No, just use Regedit. But why are you messing about with this anyway?
Are you having difficulty doing something because of incomplete Mcafee
uninstallation? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Leave it alone.

You've been posting in several groups about difficulties you've had with
networking Windows (and I think I saw you in a Linux newsgroup, too)
and I think you've got caught up in some minutiae that is probably
unrelated. If this post is related to your difficulty in getting your
network set up, you might consider having a local professional or
knowledgeable friend come over and vet your network. It's very
difficult to properly troubleshoot networking problems via Usenet.
Someone coming on-site might take one look and totally get what your
problem is.

Malke

Malke,

The reason I'm concerned about this is that I did not like the way the uninstall of
Mcafee Firewall went. By that I mean, when I dealt with their tech support (chat),
they misunderstood that I did not want it removed, and before I knew it, I was on the
road to removal. I prefer to the McAfee firewall over the MS firewall, and want to
make sure that if I install McAfee again that it doesn't lead to trouble. I'm just
checking all the bases before getting stuck with yet one more problem.

Perhaps you didn't notice my final post on the SP2 problem resolution. It ended
several days ago when I decided to call their tech support for help, I found that SP2
troubleshooting and correction was *free*. It took 2 hours on the phone to get the
problem resolved. In the end, this appeared to be very much an MS SP2 problem.
However, it's over and my XP machine is performing as it should. My three computers
can ping away to my heart's content and XP knows about its own local network
connections. BTW, did you know that MS tech support is $245 per (advanced--whatever
that means) incident on XP Pro?

Caught up with dealing problems with Linux/MS software is an understatement. My
brain is reeling from the number of difficulties I've had trying to get these three
computers networked in the last 4-5 weeks. I'll spare you. I'm finally at a stage
where I can work on Samba, and even this *supposedly* simple challenge is fraught
with glitches.

There's one thing that's certain about my interest in installing McAfee again. I am
*definitely* not going to do it until AFTER I get Samba and the time synching I need
complete--that was the whole purpose of this effort.

Yes, I agree with your assessment of "not worry".

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[Malke]

W. Watson wrote:

The reason I'm concerned about this is that I did not like the way the
uninstall of Mcafee Firewall went. By that I mean, when I dealt with
their tech support (chat), they misunderstood that I did not want it
removed, and before I knew it, I was on the road to removal. I prefer
to the McAfee firewall over the MS firewall, and want to make sure
that if I install McAfee again that it doesn't lead to trouble. I'm
just checking all the bases before getting stuck with yet one more
problem.

I personally dislike all the Mcafee software. It's bloated, causes
conflicts, and as you found out, uninstalling it is a bear. For Windows
firewalls, I like the free Sygate, Kerio, or even ZoneAlarm (although
ZA is also hideous to uninstall).

Perhaps you didn't notice my final post on the SP2 problem resolution.
It ended several days ago when I decided to call their tech support
for help, I found that SP2 troubleshooting and correction was *free*.
It took 2 hours on the phone to get the problem resolved. In the end,
this appeared to be very much an MS SP2 problem. However, it's over
and my XP machine is performing as it should. My three computers can
ping away to my heart's content and XP knows about its own local
network connections. BTW, did you know that MS tech support is $245
per (advanced--whatever that means) incident on XP Pro?

Actually, support just depends on what product you bought. When I bought
Win2k Pro years ago it came with two free support incidents. I have
paid the $245 when I needed help with a client's Win2k Server problem
and thought it was well worth it - a cost of doing business. It would
have been far more expensive *not* to call. I'm glad the SP2 support
worked for you.

Caught up with dealing problems with Linux/MS software is an
understatement. My brain is reeling from the number of
difficulties I've had trying to get these three computers networked in
the last 4-5 weeks. I'll spare you. I'm finally at a stage where I can
work on Samba, and even this *supposedly* simple challenge is fraught
with glitches.

Samba is easy, particularly if your distro has a configuration gui (like
SuSE's YaST). Otherwise, either try SWAT or even Webmin as nice gui's,
but don't forget to actually look at the resulting smb.conf file,
usually found in /etc. For a small network like yours, there should be
no problem with Samba. Do some reading at www.samba.org and use Google
Groups to review past postings on the Samba newsgroups.

Normally, I do not discuss Linux in the Windows groups since it is
really OT, but because you've had such a hard time, here is my smb.conf
file from my desktop (SuSE 9.1 Pro) which may help you. Any further
Samba/Linux discussion should be done in the appropriate newsgroups.

[global]
workgroup = AVALON
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
printer admin = @NTAdmin, root, administrator
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers

map to guest = Bad User
logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile
logon drive = P:
logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
passdb backend = smbpasswd
server string = Samba Server
netbios name = taliesin
add machine script =
domain logons = no
local master = no
preferred master = auto
ldap suffix = dc=example,dc=com
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
browseable = no
read only = No
inherit permissions = Yes
guest ok = no
printable = no
[profiles]
comment = Network Profiles Service
path = %H
read only = No
store dos attributes = Yes
create mask = 0600
directory mask = 0700
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
printable = no
[users]
comment = All users
path = /home
read only = No
inherit permissions = Yes
veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
printable = no
[groups]
comment = All groups
path = /home/groups
read only = No
inherit permissions = Yes
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
printable = no
[pdf]
comment = PDF creator
path = /var/tmp
printable = yes
print command = /usr/bin/smbprngenpdf -J '%J' -c %c -s %s -u '%u' -z
%z
create mask = 0600
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = no
guest ok = no
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @NTAdmin root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
browseable = yes
guest ok = no
printable = no

Good luck,

Malke

 

[W. Watson]

M,
Well, with the help from someone in another group, I'm making progress. I'll say no
more here.
w
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[W. Watson]

M,
One other thing. The solution to my XP SP2 problem is outlined in my "Christmas"
message in the windowsxp network NG. Just look for that string in the subject.
W

--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>