How to find if I have Mcafee on laptop?

aaroncaz

I have a new laptop, brought November am having problems with Norton, I have read if you have other anti virus it can mess Norton up, now I think this laptop came with a free trial of Mcafee, I never activated it and cannot find it, looked in programmes and used the winds button and r to seacrh for it and nothing. Is that it, does that mean it's not on my laptop or is it somewhere?

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most likely

macman

Which OS-W7 or W8?
W8 has Windows Defender built in, if so you should not be using McAfee or Norton as well.
Look under Security in Control Panel. Under AV it should say which program is installed.

Neil49

I'm running Win 7 and in that, if you go into Control Panel and select Uninstall a Program you will get a list of programs that are installed on your laptop.

If McAfee is listed then uninstall it.

aaroncaz

It's windows 8 shall take a look.

penrhyn

You can always run the removal tool,

http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS101331

aaroncaz

macman wrote: »

Which OS-W7 or W8?
W8 has Windows Defender built in, if so you should not be using McAfee or Norton as well.
Look under Security in Control Panel. Under AV it should say which program is installed.

Sorry what's AV? Windows defender is turned off.

aaroncaz

Neil49 wrote: »

I'm running Win 7 and in that, if you go into Control Panel and select Uninstall a Program you will get a list of programs that are installed on your laptop.

If McAfee is listed then uninstall it.

It's not listed but I recently thought I'd unistalled a printer only to find it was still installed..... that's why I thought it may still be there.

aaroncaz

macman wrote: »

Which OS-W7 or W8?
W8 has Windows Defender built in, if so you should not be using McAfee or Norton as well.
Look under Security in Control Panel. Under AV it should say which program is installed.

The problem is Norton won't scan, I've uninstalled it 4 times now, it works once then stops working, been back to Curry's they say to bring the laptop into them am trying to avoid doing that.

Well don't know what I did but Norton is now scanning!

aaroncaz

aaroncaz wrote: »

Sorry what's AV? Windows defender is turned off.

Reading reviews seems I may not have needed to buy Norton. Oh well....

macman

aaroncaz wrote: »

Sorry what's AV? Windows defender is turned off.

AntiVirus...
If you have W8, then Windows Defender is built in, you should not have McCrappy pre-installed, nor should you have put Norton on as well. You can only have one AV program installed.
Make and model?