Problems with McHost.exe, and with NOT McSvHost.exe
Hello,
Just a clarification, I am having problems with McHost.exe, and with NOT McSvHost.exe.
The errors started on January 5, 2012 after an update to McAfee's Antivirus Plus was performed. Of course, the update necessitates a system restart.
After restarting, McHost.exe started showing me application errors whenever I boot my computer, also whenever the Antivirus Plus summons it.
I made use of Task Manager to end the process tree for McAgent.exe, afterwards I started over the program using the shortcut for McAfee AntiVirus Plus which can be found in Start > Programs > McAfee.
After it restarts, it shows me an error for McHost.exe once more.
Thus, the error happens to be with the McHost.exe it.
I used to not have any problems prior that update.
I also started obtaining a shortcut to Antivirus Plus put on my desktop, but that has been fixed.
Every day I ensure the following location in AntiVirus Plus.
Navigation > Quarantined and Trusted Items > Quarantined Potentially Unwanted Programs
There are more often than not some bad cookies that Antivirus Plus grasps, and that I need to remove, yet given that the McHost.exe application errors have been happening, I have not seen one bad cookie in it, which makes me consider that I am not getting some protection provided by McHost.exe for it is not obtaining the bad cookies.
Am I not wholly protected currently? Please provide answers to this question.
Moreover, could you please give an explanation of what McHost.exe does?
I have not installed any other software, and I do not have at all any software that has been talked about in other posts, like Alcohol.
Also, I do not use McAfee's Firewall. I make use of ZoneAlarm instead. Thus, Net Guard should not be an issue either. But, just to be secure, I momentarily switched on McAfee's Firewall, unchecked “Net Guard”, and shut the firewall off again.
The last time I experienced an error, I made use of Process Explorer to duplicate the process information for McHost.exe. This is what I receive.
"C:Program FilesCommon FilesMcAfeeCoremchost.exe" {d193df30-3059-4654-ac82-727b1eb92f21} /pid=2808,I tried finding the CLSID {d193df30-3059-4654-ac82-727b1eb92f21} in the registry and found nothing. That seemed strange to me that McHost.exe is referencing a CLSID that doesn't seem to exist. Is McHost.exe missing something that it needs to function properly?
Please assist me in resolving this.
And another thing, I also had Virtual Technician running and it reports that the whole thing is OK.
Thus, I do not know what to do, except plead all the McAfee techs to PLEASE take a look into this.
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