If you have ever installed McAfee antivirus or Internet Security then may be you have noticed even if you have uninstalled the this antivirus it does not allow any other antivirus from installing properly. Even the trial version also causes the same problem… so how to get rid of this?
May be it seems that McAfee itself is well aware of this issue as they have already developed a removal tool which completely uninstalls the following programs automatically. This tool can very well remove the listed below collection from McAfee
- McAfee Security Center
- McAfee VirusScan
- McAfee Personal Firewall Plus
- McAfee Privacy Service
- McAfee SpamKiller
- McAfee Wireless Network Security
- McAfee SiteAdvisor
- McAfee Data Backup
- McAfee Network Manager
- McAfee Easy Network
- McAfee AntiSpyware
How to Completely remove McAfee Antivirus
1)To completely uninstall McAfee antivirus,first you have to remove your McAfee product through Add/Remove Programs.To do this,
Click Start, Settings, Control Panel.
Double-click Add or Remove Programs.
Select the McAfee SecurityCenter product.
2)Download the McAfee Consumer products remover tool [mcpr.exe]
Close all open windows to prevent any problems.
Double Click MCPR.exe (software which you just downloaded) to run the removal tool. [Windows Vista users must run this tool using administrator privileges for that,right click mcpr.exe and choose Run as Administrator option]
3)You will receive a Cleanup successful message after sometime.
4)Restart your system.
If the McAfee removal tool doesn’t work and you got a Cleanup Unsuccessfull message,then click view logs and save them for additional reference.
If you have any problems regarding the uninstall of McAfee antivirus or if the McAfee removal tool doesn’t work,say them in comments.
Download McAfee Consumer product remover [mcpr.exe] [594 k]
