McAfee sticks around!

When I look in my Vista Security area there are still 2 references to McAfee -

Under the firewall, it says both McAfee and Defender are both on.

Under Virus scan, it says both McAfee and Defender are both on and the
McAfee is out of date.

I have not ever installed McAfee, and I have even run the MCPR2.exe McAfee
"cleaner" that is supposed to remove all registry entries of McAfee.

Any suggestions???

"brufair" wrote:

> When I look in my Vista Security area there are still 2 references to McAfee -
>
> Under the firewall, it says both McAfee and Defender are both on.
>
> Under Virus scan, it says both McAfee and Defender are both on and the
> McAfee is out of date.
>
> I have not ever installed McAfee, and I have even run the MCPR2.exe McAfee
> "cleaner" that is supposed to remove all registry entries of McAfee.
>
> Any suggestions???

McAfee came installed on my new Dell running Vista Ultimate.
I removed it after many problems.
I've done the MCPR nonsense. Fix the stupid uninstall program already.

The problem is that Windows Security Center, clever thing that it is,
insists that both McAfee Viruscan and McAfee Firewall are present and
functioning. I guarantee you, they are not. Anybody know how to clean this
up?

Suggestions are much appreciated.

brwelsh wrote:

>
> "brufair" wrote:
>

>
> McAfee came installed on my new Dell running Vista Ultimate.
> I removed it after many problems.
> I've done the MCPR nonsense. Fix the stupid uninstall program already.
>
> The problem is that Windows Security Center, clever thing that it is,
> insists that both McAfee Viruscan and McAfee Firewall are present and
> functioning. I guarantee you, they are not. Anybody know how to clean this
> up?

Right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator. Type the following
command:

winmgmt /verifyrepository [enter]

If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this command:

winmgmt /salvagerepository [enter]

The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands
to the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for
the services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may
have to run it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own.
Reboot your system.

If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do
the following from an elevated cmd prompt:

net stop winmgmt [enter]
cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter]
ren repository repository.old [enter]
net start winmgmt [enter]


Malke
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Go to this website for instructions on how to completely remove McAfee..

http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/bla...rity-products/

"brwelsh" <brwelsh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3034CDAD-7246-453B-A122-2D8E2B49380D@microsoft.com...

>
>
> "brufair" wrote:
>

>
> McAfee came installed on my new Dell running Vista Ultimate.
> I removed it after many problems.
> I've done the MCPR nonsense. Fix the stupid uninstall program already.
>
> The problem is that Windows Security Center, clever thing that it is,
> insists that both McAfee Viruscan and McAfee Firewall are present and
> functioning. I guarantee you, they are not. Anybody know how to clean
> this
> up?
>
> Suggestions are much appreciated.
>
>
>
>

"Malke" wrote:

> brwelsh wrote:

>
> Right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator. Type the following
> command:
>
> winmgmt /verifyrepository [enter]
>
> If the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent", run this command:
>
> winmgmt /salvagerepository [enter]
>
> The first time you run this it will fail. It will issue stop commands
> to the services causing it to fail. It might take a couple minutes for
> the services to shut down. Run the command again. You actually may
> have to run it 3 times before it finally runs and completes on its own.
> Reboot your system.
>
> If the above doesn't work or you get "WMI repository is consistent", do
> the following from an elevated cmd prompt:
>
> net stop winmgmt [enter]
> cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem [enter]
> ren repository repository.old [enter]
> net start winmgmt [enter]
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

Thank you Malke, that did the trick! I did get the "WMI repository is
consistent" message, so I did have to follow the second set of instructions.
But that finally worked!

Thanks Again.

brwelsh

brwelsh wrote:

>
>
> Thank you Malke, that did the trick! I did get the "WMI repository is
> consistent" message, so I did have to follow the second set of instructions.
> But that finally worked!
>
> Thanks Again.

You're most welcome. I'm glad that sorted it for you. Thanks for taking
the time to let me know.


Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Malke you are brilliant. I have been searching for a fix to this dilemma
for what seems forever. The McAfee tech support people were hopeless,
they had no clue what I was talking about. There were others over on an
MSDN Blog that had the same issue with McAfee, Norton and some others. I
am so glad I have been playing around with the Tafiti search beta and
just happened to try the news section and wham there's the answer.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate people like yourself sharing
their knowledge. Cheers. T


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Mike Hall - MVP wrote:

> Go to this website for instructions on how to completely remove McAfee..
>
> http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/bla...rity-products/
>
>

Mike,

Nowadays they have an uninstall tool for the last two versions:
http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocumen...e&type=TS&ia=1

Hi Mike,

The uninstall tools that McAfee have do not do a complete job and do
not deal with the 2 firewall issue at all. I tried all of the tools
they sent to me and then ran through the registry and found a fair
number of McAfee entries that had not been cleared away.

It's a shame that uninstall tools never seem to get rid of the complete
programs, this applies for a great number of software companies and not
just security ones.

Thank you in any case for posting the information it is greatly
appreciated.

Cheers.

T


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Thanks a lot Malke, your solution did solve my security center problem.

But there is another problem no one talks about :

After uninstalling McAfee, each time I start my computer Vista execute
all the .msi packages it finds !!!

I can see that in my event log wich is full of 11708 and 1033 events at
each startup, saying : Windows Installer installed the product... for
each product installed on my computer.

Does anyone knows how to stop that ?

Regards,


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