I'm sorry to hear you've had problems with McAfee. I have had it for the last few years since I've gotten my Dell and I love it. I've not had any problems with it. I renew my subscription every year! - Dy
i had Mcafee sercurity pre-installed on my new inpiron laptop. Its complete junk because it made my laptop so slow on startup and is a system resourse hog. I uninstalled then installed AVG and Zonealarm, which are completely free, just as good and don't hog to much system resourses. Mcafee just like Norton is overpriced overhyped Junk.
I totally agree that Avast and zone alarm free version are superior. I have been using both for years and would never change. The Dell I just bought had McAfee automatically loading on start up and virtually forcing the uninformed to use it.
Because Mcafee forces its system to "run" even after I had turned off all their programs (verified by its own information) it was impossible to uninstall using add remove programs because it was "running".
I think it is totally unfair of Dell, so they make a buck or two from McAfee, that this mess from McAfee automatically starts as soon as the Dell is turned on forcing use of it.
I had to do a PC restore then open the computer in the SAFE mode BEFORE clicking on Mcafee (which it was trying to force me to do by providing no method to close the program) so I could uninstall McAfee.
Then I Searched for Mcafee in the search for files and folders and removed everything from the computer with the word McAfee.
Now the windows security still thinks Mcafee is in the computer.
Anyway totally wrong of Dell to force this on their customers using the methods it uses. I bet there is something illegal about it similar to the issues Microsoft had with IE and now the Euro problems.
Thank you all for replying.
I finally figured out how to get McAfee off. I had to actually download and install and use Mozilla Firefox because something was wrong with my Internet Explorer. Apparently something wasn't installed in Explorer which messed up my downloading a new version of McAfee in order to delete it. Talk about a hassle!
I suggest to anyone to download the full version of McAfee again, so it writes over the old McAfee files (whether they are corrupted or not) and then delete it completely. And never get it again.
MACHADO458
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August 13th, 2006 00:00
McAfee has uninstall kits availabled here -> http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=71943
Note its not for Version 11 or any beta versions.
The kit can be download under a section called "Manual Uninstall of VirusScan" when you go the "McAfee VirusScan" link.
mfz
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August 13th, 2006 15:00
lakefever2
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August 14th, 2006 23:00
FlyingArrow
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August 18th, 2006 14:00
soaring
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August 22nd, 2006 08:00
I totally agree that Avast and zone alarm free version are superior. I have been using both for years and would never change. The Dell I just bought had McAfee automatically loading on start up and virtually forcing the uninformed to use it.
Because Mcafee forces its system to "run" even after I had turned off all their programs (verified by its own information) it was impossible to uninstall using add remove programs because it was "running".
I think it is totally unfair of Dell, so they make a buck or two from McAfee, that this mess from McAfee automatically starts as soon as the Dell is turned on forcing use of it.
I had to do a PC restore then open the computer in the SAFE mode BEFORE clicking on Mcafee (which it was trying to force me to do by providing no method to close the program) so I could uninstall McAfee.
Then I Searched for Mcafee in the search for files and folders and removed everything from the computer with the word McAfee.
Now the windows security still thinks Mcafee is in the computer.
Anyway totally wrong of Dell to force this on their customers using the methods it uses. I bet there is something illegal about it similar to the issues Microsoft had with IE and now the Euro problems.
mfz
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August 22nd, 2006 14:00
I finally figured out how to get McAfee off. I had to actually download and install and use Mozilla Firefox because something was wrong with my Internet Explorer. Apparently something wasn't installed in Explorer which messed up my downloading a new version of McAfee in order to delete it. Talk about a hassle!
I suggest to anyone to download the full version of McAfee again, so it writes over the old McAfee files (whether they are corrupted or not) and then delete it completely. And never get it again.