mcAfee stick-up

[TsPoet]

A) did you go into add/remove software? That should get it all.

B) try out Avast - the free version has worked for me for years. My only objection to it is the male voice that says "virus database has been updated" at oddly random times, scaring the heck out of me thinking there is a strange man in my house every time.

Good Luck.

[ny biker]

I had a similar problem. I had something called PC-illin (or something like that) from my brief attempt to get earthlink dsl to work, and I was not able to uninstall it no matter what I tried. But it was preventing me from installing McAfee, which comes free with my cable internet access. Finally I went to the website for the company that makes PC-illin and after poking around a bit I found a link to click to uninstall the software. They had different links depending on what version you were trying to uninstall, and I found one for mine even though it was several years old.

So go to the McAfee site and see if they have any uninstall help there. Also you can try calling their tech support - they might be reluctant to help since you're not a current customer, but maybe they could at least point you to the place on their website where you can get what you need.

Good luck!

[GLC1968]

My H works for McAfee and though he supports larger applications/corporate customers, I asked his advice anyway.

He suggested a visit to http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/

[TsPoet]

I got this from a friend who had the same trouble last year. Unfortunately he's a computer programmer, which means he doesn't speak English. but, maybe this will help.


I would suggest booting into safe mode, then removing it. Also I would run a utility called msconfig, by going to start->run and typing msconfig then enter. I would locate the mcAfee and uncheck it to run as a service and startup program, that usually does the trick.

[roadie gal]

There's a program called "CCleaner" that you can download for free. Mostly it's for getting rid of spyware and other stuff like that, but it has a great uninstall feature that gets rid of stuff that your control panel install/uninstall can't.

I'm so happy that I recently switched to Mac and don't have to worry about that stuff anymore.

[tulip]

I just uninstalled McAfee (on the day it expired) last week and installed AVG. I had no trouble. I just went to he start button>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs.

[omachine]

Tulip I did try the add/remove months ago. It stated that I couldn't remove the workstation until all components were removed. Ts Poet I tried the misconfig and unfortunately it did not work. I will definitely try the other options and see which one pans out for me. Thanks for all the feedback, you folks are super amazing!!

[tctrek]

There's a program called "CCleaner" that you can download for free. Mostly it's for getting rid of spyware and other stuff like that, but it has a great uninstall feature that gets rid of stuff that your control panel install/uninstall can't.

I'm so happy that I recently switched to Mac and don't have to worry about that stuff anymore.

+1 on switching to MAC - we don't need no stinkin' virus protection .

[Cataboo]

+1 on switching to MAC - we don't need no stinkin' virus protection .

I am so going to laugh when the mac market share gets large enough that people start writing viruses for mac's... and everyone that thought they were safe and didn't take any precautions because they have a mac get viruses.

But I'm mean that way.

[SadieKate]

I'm so happy that I recently switched to Mac and don't have to worry about that stuff anymore.

Yup, you just go on thinking that. You ever heard of the Elk Cloner? First ever virus infected Apples. It seems there's sort of a Garden of Eden analogy there, doesn't it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Cloner