McAfee DLPe, Encryption, and HIPS processes fail to start or function with Endpoint Protection client installed
Installing the Symantec Endpoint Protection client with default, out-of-the-box features and settings on the same computer with McAfee products may result in many McAfee processes failing to start or function as expected.
This issue may affect the following McAfee products:
- Host Intrusion Prevention (HIPS)
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Endpoint
- Endpoint Encryption
While you may not observe specific errors, you may encounter the following symptoms with the McAfee software:
- Software will not function as expected.
- Processes may not start.
- Software cannot be installed or upgraded and results with error.
- Processes appear in a suspended state in Process Explorer.
- Processes properties in Process Explorer show either “Error opening process” or “Error opening thread”.