Mcafee Security Centre

Question

Just recently purchased my 9150 from Dell, with the Mcafee software. I've noticed from time to time when the pc boots up that the Mcafee icon (which sits in the tray on bottom right) goes red, which is fine then turns black. When I look in the security centre dashboard, it tells me the Spamkiller is disabled, I then re enable it and carry on. As I say, it has only done it a few times but wondered why.   Any ideas?   Cheers,   MIke.

obx1 · Answer

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

soopdragons · Answer

Thanks guys.   m.

daswede · Answer

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 · Answer

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.

daswede · Answer

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 · Answer

@daswede wrote: 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.

daswede · Answer

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

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