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    McAfee Reinserting Itself on MSConfig

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by kujustin, Apr 20, 2006.

  1. kujustin

    kujustin Notebook Geek

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    I am working on a friend's comp and I'd like to disable McAfee without actually removing. I removed all the McAfee apps from MSConfig but on restart they've reinerted themselves to the start up list.

    I don't really want to just uninstall it because it was downloaded and she doesn't know how to redownload it if she would ever want it.

    Any ideas?
     
    kujustin, Apr 20, 2006
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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    Well, if you don't want on-access scanning you can uninstall...then reinstall but uncheck the on-access scanner. That's what I did, and it freed up a TON of resources. As far as removing the startup for VSConsole I'm not sure. I haven't tried that.
     
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