McAfee Alert Host stopped working on Windows 7

Asked By Hiram B Nunn 35 points N/A Posted on - 01/09/2014

Hi All,

I encountered a problem with my McAfee antivirus software. I repeatedly get a ‘McAfee Alert Host has stopped working’ message soon after logging into my system. This message is consistently replayed every few minutes. I experience this problem while I’m logged in as administrator or as a standard user as well. The error message offers to check up a solution online to fix the problem, but when I choose this option nothing happens. I tried restarting my computer several times but this did not succeed in removing the error. As far as I know, all the software including McAfee is updated and my windows 7, 64 bit OS also has all the recent updates installed. What could be giving this error? I can’t remember making any major changes to my system recently. Please send forth any idea you may have. Thanks a lot for your help.

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MacAfee Alert host has stopped working

Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.

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Answered By Tim Lahaye 10 points N/A #184419

McAfee Alert Host stopped working on Windows 7

Check windows event viewer for McAfee Alert host stopped working. If found, Ensure that you are using the latest version of McAfee software. Normally, Mcafee's alert name is alerthelper.exe, an application in

If you encounter difficulties with alerthelper.exe , you can uninstall the associated program or you can end the process from task manager (for windows). AlertHelper.exe sometimes consumes too much CPU or it could be due to existing virus infection as well. So, scan your system thoroughly.
 

 

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