How to disable the Host Intrusion Prevention (IDS) disable self-protect mode
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This article describes how to disable the Host Intrusion Prevention client when a connection to the ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) 4.x server is not available.Due to agent self-protection, the Host Intrusion Prevention client cannot be uninstalled using Add or Remove programs or by manually stopping the McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention service while IPS protection is enabled. …