Ugghhh, I KNEW I hated McAfee for a reason...

[Andvari]

My university network has implmented the Cisco Clean Access Agent lately and it checks to make sure computers have up to date antiviruses, windows updates, etc.

Well it didnt recognize my Kaspersky, and our University offers McAfee for free so I got it simply so I could get online in the mean time while they got Kaspersky to be accepted.

Well now they've done that and I want to uninstall McAfee. First of all, wow, no "Uninstall McAfee" shortcut in the Program group. That's a sign of a fine program right there. Way to go McAfee.

So I uninstall it with Add/Remove, reboot for peace of mind even though it didnt ask me to. Check Program folder, and surprise surprise, Network Associates is still there. Not empty either, like many programs that leave their empty folder behind. No sire, this thing is filled with .dll's and .exe's. Surely they aren't still in use though, right?

Wrong! I've got FrameworkService.exe, naPrdMgr.exe, and whatever else might belong to McAfee running in my Task Manager! Amazing, none of these things are in the msconfig's startup list. All traces of McAfee are gone from there. Apparently these are Services.

Help me rid my computer of possibly the worst antivirus ever to be made. =(

 

[Fistandantilis]

try to start windows in safe mode, the retry the uninstall, alot of time when you got spyware and the such that you just cant uninstall, go safemode, it always works for me.

I wonder if any of thes (FrameworkService.exe, naPrdMgr.exe) might be in the services folder, you might be able to set them to a stop state from there, good luck.

 

[Andvari]

Yeah, the McAfee Framework Service was in the Services list. I disabled it there, and now neither it nor naPrdMgr start up anymore. Is there a way to remove them from the Services list? I'm nitpicky about these small things and would prefer it as if my computer had no traces left of it.

Think I can just delete the Network Associates folder now as well?

EDIT: Cuz both of those files, and then some, are in that folder. Here's a pic: Text

 

[Fistandantilis]

I think so but dont just go bye what I alone am saying, I would but that dont mean you should.