Skip to main content

moving to endpoint protection

made the switch this morning to forefront endpoint protection -- or what will be known as system center endpoint protection. most of it went okay, but there were a couple of mcafee components that made the process PAINFUL! believe it or not, the antivirus component was not it.

the removal of the host intrusion prevention system (hips) and the mcafee agent itself were both more time-consuming than required, each with its own peculiarity. :/

 

removing hips

attempting to remove the hips agent may produce an error about needing to "disable self-protect mode." I am shamelessly stealing this from the site kmit4u because the instructions are quite near perfect and don't need revising:

  1. Click Start, Run, type explorer and click OK.
  2. Navigate to: C:\Program Files\McAfee\Host Intrusion Prevention\
  3. Double-click McAfeeFire.exe.
  4. Click Task, Unlock User Interface.
  5. Type the unlock code, and select Administrator Password.
    NOTE: By default, the unlock code is abcde12345. 
  6. After the user interface is unlocked, click the IPS Policy tab. 
  7. Deselect Enable Host IPS and Enable Network IPS. (The Firewall Policy can be disabled on its own tab.)
  8. Select Task, Exit.
    Credit: Knowledge Management IT for you: How to disable the Host Intrusion Prevention(IDS) Mcafee disable self-protect mode
    Under Creative Commons License: Attribution

after following those steps, i was able to remove the hips agent!

 

removing the mcafee agent

while attempting to remove the mcafee agent, it kept telling me that "other products are still using it." uh no. I removed all other products! here's how you force it:

  1. open up a cmd prompt.
  2. navigate to the directory where frminst.exe is located. generally this is in the "common framework" directory of mcafee.
  3. run the following:

frminst.exe /forceuninstall

now, smile happily as you have slain the hideous beast!

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

using preloadpkgonsite.exe to stage compressed copies to child site distribution points

UPDATE: john marcum sent me a kind email to let me know about a problem he ran into with preloadpkgonsite.exe in the new SCCM Toolkit V2 where under certain conditions, packages will not uncompress.  if you are using the v2 toolkit, PLEASE read this blog post before proceeding.   here’s a scenario that came up on the mssms@lists.myitforum.com mailing list. when confronted with a situation of large packages and wan links, it’s generally best to get the data to the other location without going over the wire. in this case, 75gb. :/ the “how” you get the files there is really not the most important thing to worry about. once they’re there and moved to the appropriate location, preloadpkgonsite.exe is required to install the compressed source files. once done, a status message goes back to the parent server which should stop the upstream server from copying the package source files over the wan to the child site. anyway, if it’s a relatively small amount of packages, you can
11 comments
more »

How to Identify Applications Using Your Domain Controller

Problem Everyone has been through it. We've all had to retire or replace a domain controller at some point in our checkered collective experiences. While AD provides very intelligent high availability, some applications are just plain dumb. They do not observe site awareness or participate in locating a domain controller. All they want is the name or IP of one domain controller which gets hardcoded in a configuration file somewhere, deeply embedded in some file folder or setting that you are never going to find. How do you look at a DC and decide which applications might be doing it? Packet trace? Logs? Shut it down and wait for screaming? It seems very tedious and nearly impossible. Potential Solution Obviously I wouldn't even bother posting this if I hadn't run across something interesting. :) I ran across something in draftcalled Domain Controller Isolation. Since it's in draft, I don't know that it's published yet. HOWEVER, the concept is based off
3 comments
more »

sccm: content hash fails to match

back in 2008, I wrote up a little thing about how distribution manager fails to send a package to a distribution point . even though a lot of what I wrote that for was the failure of packages to get delivered to child sites, the result was pretty much the same. when the client tries to run the advertisement with an old package, the result was a failure because of content mismatch. I went through an ordeal recently capturing these exact kinds of failures and corrected quite a number of problems with these packages. the resulting blog post is my effort to capture how these problems were resolved. if nothing else, it's a basic checklist of things you can use.   DETECTION status messages take a look at your status messages. this has to be the easiest way to determine where these problems exist. unfortunately, it requires that a client is already experiencing problems. there are client logs you can examine as well such as cas, but I wasn't even sure I was going to have enough m
3 comments
more »