Remove McAfee

[ROB2246]

Hello everyone. I will be receiving my NC10 today via UPS. Has anyone removed Mc Afee from their computer and installed another anti-virus program without having any problems. I have Mc Afee on my Dell mini 9 and do not like it.

Thanks for any input in advance.

Rob

[phil]

Yeah I think most people here have probably removed it by now! I’ve put Avast (free version) on and tweaked the services within it a little to optimise it. I used to use AVG but find it a little resource-hungry since version 8.

Once uninstalled you should download and run the following tool, as it clears out all the remnants of McAfee that the regular uninstaller leaves behind:
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS100507

Cheers,
Phil

[Alfihar]

There are instructions/link to a tool to remove McAfee in first post of the thread:
Think you have successfully removed McAfee Antivirus, think again…

Here is a thread discussing various Anti-Virus products:
Anti Virus?

As for me, I removed it and installed Sophos instead.

[ROB2246]

Thanks all for your help. Received today and sucessfully removed mc Afee . Had copy of new norton 2009 and installed it. Thanks again.

[gbenquiries]

Removed the McAfee 90 day trial from my new NC10 Blue and have installed Avast, I’ve been using PCs for years and run a variety of antivirus packages – McAfee, Norton and Kaspersky. This is actually the first time I’ve tried a free one!

Anyway, Avast has been running for a couple of days now without any problem thus far so fingers crossed – may end up saving me some money 🙂

… and used the link here to completely clear out McAfee so thanks for that.

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