Cannot uninstall McAfee Internet Security Suite?

runswithascript

I am having problems trying to uninstall McAfee Internet Security Suite.

One day old netbook, Windows 7 starter, and has hardly been used.

Start > Control Panel > Category View > Uninstall a program:

I can find the software and click uninstall but instead of some front-end to remove it appearing, a small whited-out window appears so there's something wrong.

I have tried it a few times and restarted - is there a safe way to cleanly remove this crap?

hevsuit

Hmm, thats odd indeed...

Try and see if there's an uninstaller .exe in the Mcafee directory (probably done that already). If not I'd say try a third party uninstall app such as revo.

If all else fails personally i would wipe and reinstall a fresh windows.

yoyo

McAfee Removal Tool will do it .
formatting windows just to remove McAfee? Not needed at all Sure restoring the OEM OS will likely restore the crap aswell!

Nick

drunkmonkey

Appremover should rip off, download it free here http://www.appremover.com/

yoyo

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Appremover should rip off, download it free here http://www.appremover.com/

bookmarked Looks extremely useful

Nick

edanto

afaik there is a mcafee removal tool available from their website to get rid of troublesome application.

McAfee, it's like the clap.

hadoken13

Start PC in Safe Mode (keep pressing F8 when PC starts) and try to uninstall from there. You might need to uninstall the McAfee Agent as well - look in C:\Program Files\Network Associates\Common Framework\FrmInst.exe" /remove=agent.

As previous poster stated try downloading and installing Revo uninstaller (google for it).

If that fails try getting help from McAfee: http://service.mcafee.com/default.aspx


This works (posted when I was posting)

yoyo wrote: »

McAfee Removal Tool will do it .
formatting windows just to remove McAfee? Not needed at all Sure restoring the OEM OS will likely restore the crap aswell!

Nick

hevsuit

yoyo wrote: »

McAfee Removal Tool will do it .
formatting windows just to remove McAfee? Not needed at all Sure restoring the OEM OS will likely restore the crap aswell!

Nick

Thats not sneaky of McAfee at all :P

runswithascript

McAfee Removal Tool did it - thanks all.

yoyo

hevsuit wrote: »

Thats not sneaky of McAfee at all :P

Ironic that Norton, AVG and all the other sh!tty ones have "Removal Tools" aswell... Its as if they don't want it to get uninstalled properly :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Nick

runswithascript

On the first run of the Acer Aspire One Happy 2 there was a popup option to sign up up for some McAfee service or ask later - no cancel or no option.