How to Rectify McAfee Antivirus Error 10054?

It has been observed recently that a new error is taking rounds among McAfee antivirus users – Error 10054. This error, after you download and install any of the McAfee suites from mcafee.com/activate , reads that “McAfee has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” We looked into the matter and found the cause of this error. The Error 10054 occurs when McAfee Antivirus scanning is enabled on the gateway or firewall. The McAfee Agent on the affected PC trying to use a completely different account as opposed to the PC account is one of the reasons users face this error. Other technical reasons include gateway creating problems on McAfee data .zip or .tar file as the ReadMe.txt file includes the EICAR antivirus check string. There could be an issue with the Windows version or registry file too. There may be corrupted or broken system files. There can be other reasons as well. Let’s look at them below: 1. Corrupt download or incomplete installat...