Removing Mcafee

[Deleted User]

A friend of mine bought a new PC with Mcafee live safe installed. I think she has auto renewal on it, but I told her not to register the product. Would they still auto renew and if so, how would they collect payment without her credit card details.

On a separate note, how reliable is it to use the Mcafee MCPR tool to uninstall it. Has anyone used wikth success. When I took mine off my laptop some years ago, I used a toolI found on Kaspersky website, but I can't find now. I don't want to tell her to use the MCPR if it doesn't work. Any advise please

grumpycrab

Speaking as a moneysaver... it should be quite safe to uninstall the Mcafee product using MCPR. Just do it. Then install a freebie AV, e.g. Avast. (and run in Gaming/Silent mode).

GunJack

[quote=[Deleted User];discussion/5298213]A friend of mine bought a new PC with Mcafee live safe installed. I think she has auto renewal on it, but I told her not to register the product. Would they still auto renew and if so, how would they collect payment without her credit card details.

On a separate note, how reliable is it to use the Mcafee MCPR tool to uninstall it. Has anyone used wikth success. When I took mine off my laptop some years ago, I used a toolI found on Kaspersky website, but I can't find now. I don't want to tell her to use the MCPR if it doesn't work. Any advise please[/QUOTE]

the MCPR is probably the best way to remove McRapee products, followed by revo uninstaller. I've used it to get mcafee from many, many machines.

Do it, and use a decent, lightweight AV like avast or avira

[Deleted User]

GunJack wrote: »

Do it, and use a decent, lightweight AV like avast or avira

Thanks for your reply.With Avast it's only the essential that's free which I think does not include a firewall. You need to buy the software to have firewall protection. Is that right

[Deleted User]

GunJack wrote: »

the MCPR is probably the best way to remove McRapee products, followed by revo uninstaller. I've used it to get mcafee from many, many machines.

Do it, and use a decent, lightweight AV like avast or avira

What is revo unistaller

tavernman

[quote=[Deleted User];68899578]Thanks for your reply.With Avast it's only the essential that's free which I think does not include a firewall. You need to buy the software to have firewall protection. Is that right[/QUOTE]
Windows has a built in firewall, plus most(all) routers have one built in too, the two together are usually enough.

grumpycrab

[quote=[Deleted User];68899578] You need to buy the software to have firewall protection. Is that right[/QUOTE]No. Windows has a firewall.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/windows-firewall-from-start-to-finish

[quote=[Deleted User];68899591]What is revo unistaller[/QUOTE]Its a free uninstaller which does a better (more thorough) job than standard uninstallers. Google is your friend.