manual remove of Mcafee Virus

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I have mcafee virus program on a computer that wasn't uninstalled
correctly. The add/remove program don't work. Does someone know the
steps for me to manually remove the program and delete its entries
from the registry. Norton Antivirus won't allow me to install until
mcafee is removed.

Thanks,
Chris
 
Chris said:
I have mcafee virus program on a computer that wasn't uninstalled
correctly. The add/remove program don't work. Does someone know the
steps for me to manually remove the program and delete its entries
from the registry. Norton Antivirus won't allow me to install until
mcafee is removed.
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It's not wise to use either of those programs (nothing named Norton at all)
because of all the trouble they cause. You're at the beginning of learning
to realize that right now.

If you uninstall a program and it didn't uninstall correctly, reinstall the
program and try deleting it again. If Add/Remove Programs didn't work, the
program could have it's own uninstaller to use.
 
Chris said:
I have mcafee virus program on a computer that wasn't uninstalled
correctly. The add/remove program don't work. Does someone know the
steps for me to manually remove the program and delete its entries
from the registry. Norton Antivirus won't allow me to install until
mcafee is removed.

Thanks,
Chris
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Chris,
Check the McAfee website.
If you still have the McAfee program on a disk, reinstall it and then
do an uninstall.
Also, ckeck to see if there is an Uninstaller buried somewhere in
McAfee (options, directory, etc.)
Many in this NG don't like Norton or Norton products.
I run Win98 with an Athlon XP2100+ cpu.
I use some of them and they work fine for me. (Norton Anti-Virus,
Norton Disk Doctor, Norton Speed Disk and Norton Ghost).
I may try one of the other Anti-Virus programs when my subscription
for Norton runs out. I'm not sure.
I rarely ever have a virus sent to me or to my pc through the
Internet, so I really can't say how effective Norton is.
I would guess that those folks who are really 'careless' or don't
practice safe 'hex' are the ones who would have more experience with
contracting, catching, etc. viruses and therefore 'should' be able to
recommend the 'best' anti-virus program.
I check at some of the anti-virus 'reviews' on the Internet and Norton
and McAfee are usually right at or near the top of the list.
I also use ZA for a firewall and run the following free programs for
possible spyware preventions and detection and removal: AdAwareSE
Personal, SpyBot, and SpywareBlaster.
Once again, spyware rarely ever shows up on my machine (I believe that
SpywareBlaster is probably helping out a lot here)
PS: You might even check the Symantec website to see if they have any
suggestions.
Try emailing Norton for advice.
Buffalo
 
Smoker said:
If you uninstall a program and it didn't uninstall correctly, reinstall the
program and try deleting it again. If Add/Remove Programs didn't work, the
program could have it's own uninstaller to use.
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We don't have the cd for the mcafee since it came preloaded on the
computer. I'm going to try downloading the evaluation version of
mcafee then removing it to see if it fix's the problem.

Thanks,
Chris
 
Chris said:
I have mcafee virus program on a computer that wasn't uninstalled
correctly. The add/remove program don't work. Does someone know the
steps for me to manually remove the program and delete its entries
from the registry. Norton Antivirus won't allow me to install until
mcafee is removed.

Thanks,
Chris
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Found this on the McAfee forum:
http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/displaydoc.asp?frames=1&docid=68717&CategoryId=61137

It should be what you are looking for.
Buffalo
 
Chris said:
I have mcafee virus program on a computer that wasn't uninstalled
correctly. The add/remove program don't work. Does someone know the
steps for me to manually remove the program and delete its entries
from the registry. Norton Antivirus won't allow me to install until
mcafee is removed.

Thanks,
Chris
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I found this post in the McAfee forum:
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=28875&highlight=uninstalling+mcafee+antivirus

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Here are some documents with downloadable .ZIP files to clean the
Windows Registry too:
Manual Uninstall of McAfee VirusScan 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x (all languages)
Firewall 4 Manual Removal (All Windows versions)
Manual uninstall of Firewall 3 Removal for all operating systems
Searching the Registry for McAfee VirusScan Files
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Protect your PC: Microsoft Security & Privacy
Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) "
 
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