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Free McAfee Security Scan Plus

13 years ago

Somehow a installation package for free "McAfee Security Scan Plus" got on my machine. When a dialog box came up asking me to agree to the license terms to activate the program came up I hit the "cancel".

I didn't find anything here when I ran a search on my subject for this post. Anyone have any comments on this software?

I haven't used McAfee anti virus for at least 10 years. The company I worked for many years ago used McAfee. I have never purchased the program myself.

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vala55
13 years ago
That was the first anti virus I used, I was new to computers so I can't judge how well it worked. It was very hard to update and expensive. When I started posting in here I found out about free software and used AVG, then Avast until they became a problem. They both did their job well, just had to many false positives and conflicts with other software. Now I use MS Security Essentials and have not had any problems with it like I did the others.
zep516
13 years ago
It's not an Anti Virus program!

It's a free diagnostics program that will scan the computer, then probably recommend purchasing McAfee.

To Remove the McAfee; just be sure to Reboot when you are finished.

You can uninstall through the McAfee Security Scan Plus folder:

Under Start menu, go to all Programs
Open McAfee Security Scan Plus folder
Select "Uninstall"
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jerry_nj
Original Author
13 years ago
Thanks, I'll uninstall.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
13 years ago
I bet you did an update of flash and it came along for the ride there is a place on the download page itself where you have to uncheck it if you do not want that.
jerry_nj
Original Author
13 years ago
Yes, I think it was a hitch-hiker on something, could have been "flash"...I have some recall of that update coming in recently.

I did uninstall, and it took about 4 seconds. It must have been a simple scanner to get scare-tactic marketing on my screen.

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