Disabling McAfee Security Centre and missing downloads

feriso

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Just setting up my father in laws new Dell laptop that he's acquired. Now two problems I've come across that I'm stumped on since I'm a bit rusty as I've been using OSX for sometime now.

1 - how do I disable Macfee security centre? I've tried removing all the services in msconfig but they just come back on - went to protected services box in the control panel but disabling this made no effect.

2 - Just downloading some files through firefox and when they complete they now just disappear, no warnings or anything, same in IE as well. I had downloaded quite a few things (firefox, tbird, vlc, updates etc, nothing nefarious) without issue so for it just to crop up is just confusing.
 
Just uninstall Mcafee and put Microsoft Security Essentials on it.

Press Ctrl + J in Firefox

They'll be in Start, 'username', Downloads
 
bledd. said:
Just uninstall Mcafee and put Microsoft Security Essentials on it.

Press Ctrl + J in Firefox

They'll be in Start, 'username', Downloads
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I was going to put NOD on instead; but rather than uninstall, surely just disabling all ther services stops it from running in the first place?

I've looked in their, just nothing - you see the part download whilst it's d/ling but when it completes its gone - opening the d/l window doesn't help as it says error can't locate file (or simething similar)

:confused::confused:
 
Would be easier to uninstall as mentioned. Mcafee is dire on start up time, it hogs the system so much.
 
feriso said:
I was going to put NOD on instead; but rather than uninstall, surely just disabling all ther services stops it from running in the first place?

I've looked in their, just nothing - you see the part download whilst it's d/ling but when it completes its gone - opening the d/l window doesn't help as it says error can't locate file (or simething similar)

:confused::confused:
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If you have a badly behaved dog and chop it's legs off, it will still wriggle around barking and biting everything it can.

That bad dog is called Mcafee :p


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There's plenty of other startup locations besides Program\Startup and the Services screen

Uninstall, or use this tool to get rid of it.

http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe

-may be a good idea to run that tool even after uninstalling it
 
bledd. said:
Just uninstall Mcafee and put Microsoft Security Essentials on it.
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Sounds advice. I've tried varying "free" AV and since I installed MSE way back I've never regretted it.

I mean, who better to write a program to protect your OS, then the people who write your OS?
 
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