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<blockquote data-quote="Zorro" data-source="post: 972465" data-attributes="member: 80312"><p>The first thing I did when I bought a laptop is to remove the pre-installed McAfee antivirus. Because his license has long expired, but I did not want to pay for it. And I would give the gold medal to this antivirus in the nomination &quot;The most difficult uninstalled product of the year.&quot; <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😰" title="Anxious face with sweat&nbsp; &nbsp; :cold_sweat:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f630.png" data-shortname=":cold_sweat:" />At first I deleted it using a standard system uninstaller. But I decided that you still need to try to use the special utility to remove the McAfee. I launched this utility and she removed something long there. After rebooting, I decided that everything is in order. I manually checked the folders (including hidden), in which the remnants of McAfee could remain, and removed several such residues. But after a few months, using the Autoruns program, I saw that in the driver folder there are still 5 McAfee drivers!!!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😮" title="Face with open mouth&nbsp; &nbsp; :open_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f62e.png" data-shortname=":open_mouth:" /> I deleted these drivers and decided to manually check the registry of Windows. And when I manually checked the registry, I found another about 10-15 entries belonging to McAfee.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😬" title="Grimacing face&nbsp; &nbsp; :grimacing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png" data-shortname=":grimacing:" /> I am still not sure that McAfee did not hide somewhere in the depths of Windows. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite119" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Zorro, post: 972465, member: 80312"] The first thing I did when I bought a laptop is to remove the pre-installed McAfee antivirus. Because his license has long expired, but I did not want to pay for it. And I would give the gold medal to this antivirus in the nomination "The most difficult uninstalled product of the year." 😰At first I deleted it using a standard system uninstaller. But I decided that you still need to try to use the special utility to remove the McAfee. I launched this utility and she removed something long there. After rebooting, I decided that everything is in order. I manually checked the folders (including hidden), in which the remnants of McAfee could remain, and removed several such residues. But after a few months, using the Autoruns program, I saw that in the driver folder there are still 5 McAfee drivers!!!😮 I deleted these drivers and decided to manually check the registry of Windows. And when I manually checked the registry, I found another about 10-15 entries belonging to McAfee.😬 I am still not sure that McAfee did not hide somewhere in the depths of Windows. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]

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