
Followed Document ID TS101331 to uninstall and reinstall using the Consumer Products Removal Tool MCPR. Saturday morning, I tried to perform a manual Virus scan, and received the "VSOs undefined" error.ġ. It had apparently tried to update and autoscan at the same time. I have tried Automatic remove McAfee MCPR downloaded from a web site but without success.I ran into problems with Mcafee Internet Security two nights ago. So I installed this, but half way through installing I received a message “you must remove McAfee before you can install this on you computer” I had a look in my PC to see if I could see any trace of McAfee I found two with the name McAfee in C: Drive under Programs Files so I deleted these and I tried to install the software again I got the same message “you must remove McAfee” I do not know what to do now as I cant see or know where to look for this McAfee. Well I had another Internet security software (iolo System Mechanic 7 Pro) have you heard of it, it is very good as I have it installed on another PC. I’m having problem with removing McAfee security, I went to Control Add & Remove Programs, thinking that would do the remove,it did remove it but left a message not all of it was removed. Screenshots:īeen reading your comments regarding McAfee I agree with you. This tool can also be used to cleanup remaining files after a McAfee product was successfully uninstalled via “Add/Remove Programs”.

This tool will remove the following McAfree Products:īefore using this tool, always try and remove the McAfee product using the “Add/Remove Programs” option under Control Panel first. To make matters worse, neither product can be uninstalled from Safe Mode easily which is obviously a problem.Įnter the McAfee Removal Tool. Often they have been the cause of the problems I had to fix onsite.Ī big problem I frequently come across with Norton and McAfee is that both of these products sink their hooks so deeply into a system and once the appliction becomes corrupted it can cause serious stability problems – often to the point where you cannot boot into Windows. Why? Because they are bloated applications that make most computers run poorly once installed. There are two software security suites I really dislike – one of them is Norton Internet Security and the other is McAfee Internet Security.
