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We have a few Dell Laptops in circulation. On both Dell D420s and D620s running Windows XP SP2 we had problems installing and/or updating the signatures in McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise 8.0i.

The main symptom is Error fffff95B @ 2 in the McAfee Common Framework when trying to update the virus signatures and a "Failed to connect to computer '.'." error when trying to access the Virus Scan Console on the affected machine. Also, the McAfee Common Framework Service is not listed as an installed service in services.msc.

The error messages.

After more or less successful googling and trial and error, I have come up with the following fix.

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