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Virus program removal
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A friend had new laptop with Windows 7 loaded and also trial version 30day of Mc afee. Which they want removed, as I will be loading another make. Some of these programs leave files behind after add-remove has been used. Any advice in this direction I should be aware of, before I load another anti Virus program Regards Roger |
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And you posted this to a winxp group?
McAfee site would be the place to look "Roger" wrote in message ... Hi A friend had new laptop with Windows 7 loaded and also trial version 30day of Mc afee. Which they want removed, as I will be loading another make. Some of these programs leave files behind after add-remove has been used. Any advice in this direction I should be aware of, before I load another anti Virus program Regards Roger |
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Roger wrote:
Hi A friend had new laptop with Windows 7 loaded and also trial version 30day of Mc afee. Which they want removed, as I will be loading another make. Some of these programs leave files behind after add-remove has been used. Any advice in this direction I should be aware of, before I load another anti Virus program Regards Roger Roger, you posted your question to an XP newsgroup! That being said, I can tell you how to remove McAfee for XP. The tool mentioned here needs to be downloaded and installed: http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507 I don't know if Windows 7 is supported. I am cross-posting to microsoft.public.security.virus to see if others can answer definitively. |
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"Ken1943" wrote in message ... On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:48:38 -0000, "Roger" wrote: Hi A friend had new laptop with Windows 7 loaded and also trial version 30day of Mc afee. Which they want removed, as I will be loading another make. Some of these programs leave files behind after add-remove has been used. Any advice in this direction I should be aware of, before I load another anti Virus program Regards Roger The free version of Revo Uninstaller will find extra crap. Use regedt to find left over stuff (be careful). Search your drive for Mcafee. KenW Thank you all for comments, I was aware of newsgroup, but could not find another in index that was suitable, only saw one for win7 that appeared to have foreign link Roger |
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This has been a known and long problem with any paid or free AV/AM program.
Some the services, drivers or components are left behind whenever its uninstalled. This is one reason why the developers for these security softwares created their own removal tool for any of their products. Personally, I for a free AV/AM solution you may want to use Microsoft Security Essentials. For a paid one you can try either ESET Smart Security or NOD 32. Both of which are good AV/AM products that leave a small footprint for your system resources and in the same time protects you against all known Malware. Bear in mind also that there is really no 100% security solution, instead its actually upon how you use your system. One good advice would be this: http://www.microsoft.com/security/pypc.aspx -- Jay Pilarta MVP 2010 | Consumer Security Visit me @ Crimson Spectrum Sent from Windows Live Mail "Daave" wrote in message ... Roger wrote: Hi A friend had new laptop with Windows 7 loaded and also trial version 30day of Mc afee. Which they want removed, as I will be loading another make. Some of these programs leave files behind after add-remove has been used. Any advice in this direction I should be aware of, before I load another anti Virus program Regards Roger Roger, you posted your question to an XP newsgroup! That being said, I can tell you how to remove McAfee for XP. The tool mentioned here needs to be downloaded and installed: http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS100507 I don't know if Windows 7 is supported. I am cross-posting to microsoft.public.security.virus to see if others can answer definitively. __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4776 (20100115) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4776 (20100115) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com |
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