Lukas Beeler's IT Blog

McAfee’s ProtectionPilot works well, at least most of the time.

During my regular checkup, i noticed that the virus definitions haven’t been updated for a few hours. When viewing the the scheduled tasks pane, all the scheduled times showed up as “Unknown”.

I tried a manual update, which worked fine.

I scanned the eventlog, and saw that the McAfee Framework service has crashed. After starting it, the updates worked automatically, as they should.

The Framework service didn’t have automatic restart & recovery enabled by default. I enabled it, but i don’t think that this will happen again – it has been working flawless for almost two years.