albert- If your wife used Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel, it has removed most, but not all, of McAfee. (If she did something else, like only deleted the shortcut for McAfee, it's still there). You can go to the link posted above for the McAfee Uninstaller, download it, and run it to remove everything. I believe it works even if you have already done a partial removal, but not sure. At any rate it won't screw anything up to try it. Also, I've never seen McAfee automatically bill for a subsciption renewal without your consent. I suspect one of you clicked on a button somewhere - like in an email to you from McAfee, or in an update notice as the program approached the anniversary date - and that you agreed to renew your subscription, and probably had to enter your credit card info for the subscription. Lastly, reassure me that you are running some other kind of antivirus software on your computer.

Oliver wrote:- I do have Ad-Aware and I run it daily. It was free and updates itself regularly. I highly recommend it. Not true. Adaware is definitely free, however it requires updating manually. The latest update is SE1R157 dated 05 03 2007. You can see that information on your AdAware screen just about in the centre. Running it daily is overkill in my mind but of course if you are comfortable with that then keep right on. You do definitely need to be looking for thoe updates. I usually look for updates then run the program about every 2 weeks or so unless I have been surfing in doubtful places like free clipart sites etc. McAfee has come a long in the last couple of years, much improved. Your statement that Panda caused you to have the hard drive replaced is hard to fathom. Panda is an excellent program. If something else messed the drive it could have been wiped, formatted and had the software re-installed.

Found this note, regarding the error...which I hope I don't have some other kind of bad problem, as now i have no protection going. That "appcompat.txt" looks like it will be hard to manage! Oh me!!! Description This program might not have uninstalled correctly Problem signature Problem Event Name: PCA2 Problem Signature 01: avgmfapx.exe Problem Signature 02: 10.0.0.1325 Problem Signature 03: AVG Installer Application Problem Signature 04: AVG Internet Security Problem Signature 05: AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. Problem Signature 06: 10 Problem Signature 07: 201 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Files that help describe the problem appcompat.txt

ok AVG is an antivirus program unless you are talking specifically about the AVG program that was for spyware?? you need to clarify please. If AVG antivirus you do not want to get rid of your only antivirus program. I have personally quit using AdAware, it used to be a super good program but in my opinion there are others that have now surpassed it and yes Superantispyware is the main one. I use it regularly, I also keep Spywareblaster SpywareBlaster 4.1 on my system and update it weekly and enable all the protection. I do the superantispyware update and scan weekly also. Plus I have my dedicated antivirus program that is always active. It does not hurt anything to have the programs you mentioned all on your pc, you do not have to delete them but if you want to save room and are not using something then yes you can. You do have a specific antivirus program that is running though right?