Comments on: Repair Tool of the Week: McAfee Product Removal Tool

By: Jenna

Jenna — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:18:44 +0000

and webroot too?

By: Jenna

Jenna — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:00:16 +0000

Hey
I was wondering if anyone has tried or heard of kaspersky internet security? how did it work? better than the others?

By: amanda

amanda — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0000

it wont work
is there something im doing wrong?

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:19:31 +0000

Will this removal tool from Mcafee still work if some removal handlings have been done ?
E.g. already removed all regustry entries which contain the word Mcafee, searched and deleted all directories found on the harddisk, also the ones with Network Accosiates or something like that. Also killed all services related to mcafee.

This story is about 1 pc in a network that has huge problems with mcfee; it won’t update and scan on request could not be enabled. So it won’t work. Probable reason is that a virus killed it. It’s a paid enterprise version of mcafee.
I certainly will try the removal tool of course, but maybe some1 here knows what to do when it does not work. Cause installing another AV will not work as long as some elements of mcafee are still there.
Thanks !

By: scorch

scorch — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:44:57 +0000

what sucks is when you go to uninstall this stuff (norton or mcaffee) and they say there’s something else running so therefore the uninstall can’t proceed

grrr!

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:35:58 +0000

WOW I am impressed. I removed this virus scanner from my system when I first got it. Ran this it found reminents of McCrapy still resideing on my system. Good riddens with them now.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:42:35 +0000

I’m mostly finished with a complete system recovery on a friend’s Gateway (blech) laptop. I was at the point of installing AVG when it told me there was another AV program installed. Sure enough, a 90 trial to McAfee. Everytime I tried to use “Add/Remove” I got the error message saying it could not do it while antivirus was running. I right clicked the systray icon and clicked exit. Guess what, it doesn’t kill the AV process. I had to use Task Manager. Long story shortened, Add/Remove didn’t take it all out, so I used the McAfee removal tool. The problem is, in XP Home security center, the AV section still thinks Mcafee is installed, but I see no obvious instances of it running in Task Manager. Now what do I do since AVG also thinks there is still another AV program installed also?

By: TOM

TOM — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:02:53 +0000

Hi,
Been reading your comments regarding McAfee I agree with you. I’m having problem with removing McAfee security, I went to Control Add & Remove Programs, thinking that would do the remove,it did remove it but left a message not all of it was removed. Well I had another Internet security software (iolo System Mechanic 7 Pro) have you heard of it, it is very good as I have it installed on another PC. So I installed this, but half way through installing I received a message “you must remove McAfee before you can install this on you computer” I had a look in my PC to see if I could see any trace of McAfee I found two with the name McAfee in C: Drive under Programs Files so I deleted these and I tried to install the software again I got the same message “you must remove McAfee” I do not know what to do now as I cant see or know where to look for this McAfee. Please Please can any one help me. I have tried Automatic remove McAfee MCPR downloaded from a web site but without success.

By: gunslinger

gunslinger — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:05:25 +0000

I Have been using the McAfee removal tool for a while now, and I have to say its a must have right up there with the Norton removal tool. I also agree with gregg about not working on a machine that has Norton or McAfee on it until I have removed them. Too many times have I inserted one of my flash drives into a system just to have Norton or McAfee start deleting files off of it without asking. I then have to go back to the shop and re-build my tool kit.

By: Suhag

Suhag — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:09:17 +0000

This is great advice, too bad I did not know this sooner. Just last week I spent an hour trying to remove Mcafee, and just by chance i stumbled upon this removal tool on another site…and suprisingly it worked.