> Thank you for contacting McAfee Consumer Support. How can I help you? Customer: 5. Once you reach a Technician in the Chat queue, please provide the 481438- 51876269 to the Tech and request to be transferred to the supervisor Shantu Varghese: Steven, thank you for contacting McAfee Technical Support, your reference number for this session is 481438-56162422. How may I assist you today? Customer: See my first post ..... Customer: Can you transfer me to a supervisor please? Shantu Varghese: I am happy to assist you today with this issue. Customer: Very well ......... short version: I disable protected mode > re-boot the laptop > protected mode automatically re-enables itself Customer: How do I stop it automatically re-enabling itself? Customer: ?? Customer: hello? Shantu Varghese: I hope you don't mind if I take a couple of moments to research on it. Customer: very well Customer: but a note to let me know you were doing such would have been courteous ;) Shantu Varghese: I hope you don't mind if I take a couple of moments to research on it. Customer: np Shantu Varghese: Yes. Steven. Customer: huh? Shantu Varghese: Just a moment please. Customer: no problem Shantu Varghese: I am contacting my supervisor. Customer: ok Shantu Varghese: Steven, the issue we are having will be better handled by my Tier-2 team, hence I will be escalating this case. I will be giving you a link that will connect you to my Tier-2 team right away. They will also be able to connect to and troubleshoot your computer remotely. Will that be fine with you?” Customer: oks Shantu Varghese: Please end this chat session and use this link https://broker.gotoassist.com/h/mcafeevr?Question=DR429-0569