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Bill Dolgen
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Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Make McAfee Go Away |
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How can I get rid of this pesky program? It won't uninstall
itself, I mean. Clicking on its components in Add/Remove
Programs is just ignored. Grrr!
If this is the wrong group, I apologize, but I don't see a
McAfee group listed separately.
Bill |
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Vrodok the Troll
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Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24:12 -0700, in comp.security.firewalls, Bill Dolgen
<billdolgen@gazeta.pl>, by way of Message-id
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How can I get rid of this pesky program? It won't uninstall
itself, I mean. Clicking on its components in Add/Remove
Programs is just ignored. Grrr!
If this is the wrong group, I apologize, but I don't see a
McAfee group listed separately.
Bill
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The above is why I gave-up on *anything* "McAfee" way-back in 1996.
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Vrodok the Troll
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Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:49:17 -0600, in comp.security.firewalls,
gray.wizard@moria.mines, by way of Message-id
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| Quote: | On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24:12 -0700, Bill Dolgen <billdolgen@gazeta.pl
wrote:
How can I get rid of this pesky program? It won't uninstall
itself, I mean. Clicking on its components in Add/Remove
Programs is just ignored. Grrr!
If I were you, I'd blast away my Windows partition...just reformat &
re-install Windows from scratch.
No. Seriously.
Even if you could get it to uninstall it'd still leave little turds
all over your hard drive and in your registry. It's best if you just
blasted everything away and never let McAfee touch your PC again.
Beware, if you move to Symantec, you may be "rewarded" by a similar
experience.
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Perhaps you are thinking more of "Norton", as opposed to "Symantec" (the latter
is usually considered to be *much* more reliable)?
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Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Re: Make McAfee Go Away |
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24:12 -0700, Bill Dolgen <billdolgen@gazeta.pl>
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| Quote: | How can I get rid of this pesky program? It won't uninstall
itself, I mean. Clicking on its components in Add/Remove
Programs is just ignored. Grrr!
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If I were you, I'd blast away my Windows partition...just reformat &
re-install Windows from scratch.
No. Seriously.
Even if you could get it to uninstall it'd still leave little turds
all over your hard drive and in your registry. It's best if you just
blasted everything away and never let McAfee touch your PC again.
Beware, if you move to Symantec, you may be "rewarded" by a similar
experience. |
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Jim Higgins
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Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:03 am Post subject:
Re: Make McAfee Go Away |
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:49:17 -0600, gray.wizard@moria.mines wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24:12 -0700, Bill Dolgen <billdolgen@gazeta.pl
wrote:
How can I get rid of this pesky program? It won't uninstall
itself, I mean. Clicking on its components in Add/Remove
Programs is just ignored. Grrr!
If I were you, I'd blast away my Windows partition...just reformat &
re-install Windows from scratch.
No. Seriously.
Even if you could get it to uninstall it'd still leave little turds
all over your hard drive and in your registry. It's best if you just
blasted everything away and never let McAfee touch your PC again.
Beware, if you move to Symantec, you may be "rewarded" by a similar
experience.
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I don't run McAfee so this is generic advice. Your best bet is to go
to the McAfee site and find specific removal instructions and print
them out before doing anything.
Anti-Virus programs in general don't permit you to uninstall them
while they are running. sort of makes sense, doesn't it? Anyhow,
open the McAfee program and find an option that prevents it from
installing itself on next reboot. Then reboot and verify it isn't
running. Now uninstall it.
But as I said above, best to go to the McAfee site and get proper
instructions. |
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Volker Birk
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Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
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Vrodok the Troll <vrodok@culvert.waadi.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Perhaps you are thinking more of "Norton", as opposed to "Symantec"
(the latter
is usually considered to be *much* more reliable)?
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Why should it be considered as more reliable in any way at all?
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Tue Nov 22, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:15:27 GMT, Vrodok the Troll
<vrodok@culvert.waadi.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Perhaps you are thinking more of "Norton", as opposed to "Symantec" (the latter
is usually considered to be *much* more reliable)?
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Norton is a child company of Symantec. Their products use the same
underlying DLLs that poison a system. The only difference is the GUI
which Norton bloats up to be pretty & dreadfully slow for home users.
I have seen Symantec's corporate anti-virus program's scanning engine
rendered inoperable due to spyware. If the anti-virus protection is
that fragile I don't want any part of it. |
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Vrodok the Troll
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Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:17 am Post subject:
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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:55:39 -0600, in comp.security.firewalls,
gray.wizard@moria.mines, by way of Message-id
<nmf6o1tco9eit97d3nn7qji6f771gq4squ@4ax.com>, wrote:
| Quote: | On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:15:27 GMT, Vrodok the Troll
vrodok@culvert.waadi.com> wrote:
Perhaps you are thinking more of "Norton", as opposed to "Symantec" (the latter
is usually considered to be *much* more reliable)?
Norton is a child company of Symantec. Their products use the same
underlying DLLs that poison a system. The only difference is the GUI
which Norton bloats up to be pretty & dreadfully slow for home users.
I have seen Symantec's corporate anti-virus program's scanning engine
rendered inoperable due to spyware. If the anti-virus protection is
that fragile I don't want any part of it.
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And on that note:
"Popular Programs Suffer Wave of Internet Attacks"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20051122/tc_pcworld/123651
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Ron Lopshire
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Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
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Bill Dolgen wrote:
| Quote: | All interesting notes, but I didn't see anything responsive
to the question. Is there no way to get rid of this pesky
program? It came bundled with the computer, or I would
never have had it in the first place.
I tried booting to safe mode and again attempting the
Add/Remove stuff, but to no avail. I could search the
registry and delete all references, also deleting the various
folders, but I was hoping for something less drastic.
Bill
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Bill,
This is primarily directed toward NAV, but many of the ideas are not
AV-specific:
(http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=5233)
Don Pelotas, among other KAV gurus, has a wealth of experience helping
people get rid of AV installations, particularly OEM installations. If
you want to post, you will have to register (it's free).
Ron :) |
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Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Re: Make McAfee Go Away |
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:23:19 -0700, Bill Dolgen <billdolgen@gazeta.pl>
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| Quote: | I tried booting to safe mode and again attempting the
Add/Remove stuff, but to no avail. I could search the
registry and delete all references, also deleting the various
folders, but I was hoping for something less drastic.
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Bill,
I know you were hoping for something less drastic & believe me when I
tell you that if we had any other solution we'd be quick to tell you.
However, unfortunately for you, McAfee only cares about getting their
crapware on your computer. They don't have much interest in giving
people a way to escape their personal brand of hell. The marginal
uninstall routing is only there to keep people from screaming too loud
and for tech support to tell people to perform if there's a problem
upgrading to the next version of crapware.
Your only other option is to set aside a couple hours to scour through
the registry removing every reference to McAfee that you find & then
manually deleting the corresponding file off your hard drive. That's
the only other course of action that can be performed when an
uninstall routine fails you. It's a tiresome grueling process & it's
really easy to miss something so there's no guarantee that when you're
done you will have exterminated everything. That's why the
recommendations for a re-format. It'll save you a lot of time,
trouble, and head-ache in the long run. It wasn't just a snap
recommendation to get you out of our hair & give you busy work to do.
I always recommend people who buy mass-marketed computers to re-format
and install a fresh copy of Windows anyway. There is most likely other
crap-ware lurking around on that hard drive that was bundled with your
PC which you'd probably be better off without. |
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Bill Dolgen
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Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
Re: Make McAfee Go Away |
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All interesting notes, but I didn't see anything responsive
to the question. Is there no way to get rid of this pesky
program? It came bundled with the computer, or I would
never have had it in the first place.
I tried booting to safe mode and again attempting the
Add/Remove stuff, but to no avail. I could search the
registry and delete all references, also deleting the various
folders, but I was hoping for something less drastic.
Bill |
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Bill Dolgen
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:30 am Post subject:
Re: Make McAfee Go Away |
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gray.wizard@moria.mines and others wrote (no easy way out):
Ok, I exported the registry and deleted every single key I
could find that referenced Mcafee in any way. Some keys
marked Legacy(with add-ons) would not go away, and I
had to boot to Safe Mode in order to delete the Mcafee folders
on the C: drive, but it all appears to be gone now. I will let
you know if a glitch happens in the next week or so.
I was under the distinct impression that Windows required all
programs marked compatible with XP to have an uninstall
option available. Not so?
Bill |
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:30:38 -0700, Bill Dolgen <billdolgen@gazeta.pl>
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| Quote: | I was under the distinct impression that Windows required all
programs marked compatible with XP to have an uninstall
option available. Not so?
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You are correct, but I guess McAfee took that to mean that it didn't
have to be a *working* uninstall option.
However, like Andrew said, something may have gotten corrupted & that
was what prevented the uninstall option from working.
I bet you're not willing to reinstall McAfee to test out that theory,
though. ;) |
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Andrew Rossmann
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Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject:
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In article <fg8co198gp2lsvv64sogufilk0a69sj85e@4ax.com>,
billdolgen@gazeta.pl says...
| Quote: | gray.wizard@moria.mines and others wrote (no easy way out):
Ok, I exported the registry and deleted every single key I
could find that referenced Mcafee in any way. Some keys
marked Legacy(with add-ons) would not go away, and I
had to boot to Safe Mode in order to delete the Mcafee folders
on the C: drive, but it all appears to be gone now. I will let
you know if a glitch happens in the next week or so.
I was under the distinct impression that Windows required all
programs marked compatible with XP to have an uninstall
option available. Not so?
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Don't entirely blame McAfee. Odds are, there was corruption someplace
that prevented the uninstaller from running. One fix might have been to
re-install McAfee, then see if the uninstall worked.
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