Disabling McAfee Security Centre and missing downloads

[feriso]

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.

 

[feriso]

Just uninstall Mcafee and put Microsoft Security Essentials on it.

Press Ctrl + J in Firefox

They'll be in Start, 'username', Downloads

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)