Help Removing McAfee Products – How Do You Get Rid Of McAfee Antivirus?

My cousin installed McAfee on his wife’s computer a year or so ago. Everything seemed to work ok, although the antivirus slowed down her system a bit. Then roughly a year later, he looks at his monthly credit card bill and sees that McAfee has automatically billed him for another year of service. He was planning on removing the software and installing a free antivirus called Avast on her computer when the renewal time expired. However, the McAfee Antivirus program refuses to be removed even after he called McAfee department.

Despite the fact that the McAfee anti-virus software has evolved from a single standalone anti-virus program into a complete protection suite that provides universal and real time protection against majority of malicious programs in the computer market, if you are unhappy with McAfee Antivirus program for sluggish computer performance or simply looking to switch to a new antivirus program during the time of renewal, then you need to uninstall McAfee from your desktop or laptop.

1. Click the “Start” button located on the bottom left of the task bar of your computer.
2. Scroll to “Control Panel” and click on it. If you cannot locate the Control Panel for any reason, type “Control Panel” in the search window below the “All Programs” button.
3. Once the Control Panel window opens up displaying various control menus or features, click on the “Uninstall a Program” link under Programs.



4. Scroll down to “McAfee Antivirus” from the list of programs that opens up and click on it. Click on the pop-out which says “Uninstall/Change.” Click on it and, depending on the version of McAfee Antivirus that you have installed on your computer, different operations such as Modify, Remove or Repair are displayed.
5. Click “Remove” and then “OK.”
6. Removing the McAfee Antivirus program will take a few minutes relative to the processing power of your computer.

After the reboot process, it is necessary to verify if the McAfee Antivirus has been removed from the machine. Casually, some computer users will delete files and folders when the normal removal process has failed. In fact, it is the worst way. The incorrect uninstall of MacAfee antivirus will probably bring you big amount of troubles, such as frequent uninstall error messages and system crashes etc. Therefore, it is recommended to use the automatic removal option for McAfee products if this happens to you. The Mcafee antivirus files and extensions usually become invalid and the only way to completely uninstall Mcafee antivirus from your PC is to utilize a professional uninstaller tool like Perfect Uninstaller.

With Perfect Uninstaller installed, you will be able to clean up all related registry values and/or dlls, and then you can successfully uninstall the stubborn Mcafee antivirus or remove McAfee Total Protection 2012 finally.