How to get rid of McAfee - REALLY uninstall McAfee
Published on July 8, 2016
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Do you have McAfee on your computer? The answer is probably yes if you are here.
Do you need to uninstall McAfee?
Was there a month long trial of McAfee products when you bought your computer?
Did McAfee sneak back onto your computer with an internet download?
The McAfee Uninstall Problem
If you try and uninstall using Add/Remove programs on a PC or uninstall McAfee from the Applications folder on a Mac, it will not be totally removed.
Adobe products like Flash and Acrobat Reader come with a present from McAfee if you don't uncheck the box. (Yeah. Older websites still use flash. Or if you use WIX for website hosting, then you probably have some flash) So now you need to get rid of it again.
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McAfee Products
Here are their top products:
- McAfee Total Protection
- McAfee internet security suite
- McAfee Antivirus Protection with McAfee AntiVirus Plus
McAfee also has a range of other stuff that ends up on your computer.
- True Key app to store usernames and passwords
- Anti-SPAM
- Parental Controls
How to get rid of McAfee products
- Go to us.mcafee.com/apps/supporttools/mcpr/mcpr.asp to download the McAfee Consumer Products Removal Tool
- Download the program
- Save it or run it. If you saved it, navigate to where you saved it and run it.
- It will do it's thing and uninstall McAfee... until the next time
So why am I writing about McAfee products and how to get rid of McAfee? First reason is I found their software on my computer again, with the uninstall button disabled (the above fix got rid of it). Second reason is I'd like some feedback on how I write for an affiliate website.
Here is where you rip my demo apart. I don't have a McAfee affiliate site or an affiliate site in computers. It's a demo:
What am i doing well or not so well? I could really use feedback.
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