Uninstall of McAfee Personal Firewall Kills Internet and TCP/IP Connections

Contributor Icon Contributed by mikejc Date Icon August 24, 2004  
Tag Icon Tagged: Windows

Removing McAfee Personal Firewall can distrupt your network connections.


After you uninstall McAfee Personal Firewall, one or more of the following issues may occur:

You are unable to view Web pages.
You are unable to ping URL addresses.

When you issue the ipconfig /renew command, you receive the following error message:

An error occurred while renewing interface local area connection: an operation was attempted on something that is not a socket.

This behavior occurs if you remove Personal Firewall from your computer through the Add/Remove Programs tool in the Control Panel.

mike

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  • Whitetiger
    RUBBISH !
  • Anonymous
    is there any cure for this?
  • busted
    I have exactly the same problem. Is there any known work-around?
  • MickeyMouse
    Have you tried resetting the TCP stack?

    http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips449.html
  • njrlewis
    Question: If you follow the link above, part of the directions say "c:resetlog.txt will show what changes existed. You can change this to whatever path you wish." I have no clue what path I wish. Can you simplify this for a newbie?
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