I have McAfee Security Center but only use anti-virus and firewall. Upon booting up, my system tray red icon turns black, but will change to red again shortly. There are technical reasons for this occuring during start-up so I wouldn't fret. However you might wish to explore the McAfee site forums regarding Security Center or Anti-Virus or Personal Firewall and read some of the posts pertaining to this condition
Problem is--the icon is supposed to be Red, not Black. Black is bad. Go to Add/remove programs, McAfee suite and uninstall Spamkiller and it will be red as it's supposed to be.
I went to "add/remove" on my 'control panel' and the only programs relating to McAfee is
"McAfee clean up tool" and "McAfee uninstaller". This is a dimension E310 with McAfee already installed. No mention of spamkiller,privacy ,firewall.
You want McAfee uninstaller. When you open it, you will be given a list of programs that can be uninstalled. Warning, the choices are selected by default. You need to deselect anything you DON'T want to delete. I wanted to erase the privacy module. I clicked on it and hit erase. Yep, I erased everything BUT the privacy module.
It appeared that to uninstall McAfee was going to be a problem after logging into their forum site. I will go to their site for the uninstalls
I went and bought a new subscription CD for when Dell's 90 day subscription expires i can just go from there. Seems like all these $$$ virus protection is worse than the freebies.
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July 18th, 2006 12:00
soopdragons
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July 19th, 2006 11:00
Thanks guys.
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daswede
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July 19th, 2006 11:00
I had the same problem with McAfee. Contacted McAfee support and they said this is normal (?)
with spamkiller. Their suggestion was to disable spamkiller,which i did. no more problems and icon remains black.
Mary G
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daswede
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July 19th, 2006 16:00
I went to "add/remove" on my 'control panel' and the only programs relating to McAfee is
"McAfee clean up tool" and "McAfee uninstaller". This is a dimension E310 with McAfee already installed. No mention of spamkiller,privacy ,firewall.
crkeehn
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July 20th, 2006 18:00
You want McAfee uninstaller. When you open it, you will be given a list of programs that can be uninstalled. Warning, the choices are selected by default. You need to deselect anything you DON'T want to delete. I wanted to erase the privacy module. I clicked on it and hit erase. Yep, I erased everything BUT the privacy module.
daswede
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July 20th, 2006 19:00
It appeared that to uninstall McAfee was going to be a problem after logging into their forum site. I will go to their site for the uninstalls
I went and bought a new subscription CD for when Dell's 90 day subscription expires i can just go from there. Seems like all these $$$ virus protection is worse than the freebies.
Thanks for your reply