Ever had the pleasure of uninstalling the McAfee virusscanner version 8. No, well, let me put it this way. If not, continue reading the post. Sometimes you can remove VirusScan Enterprise remnants using the msiexec. This can save time and is recommended before undertaking the manual removal procedure. For full details on how to remove VirusScan Enterprise via the command line using msiexec. Please be aware that the uninstaller program for each software product is different.
Please follow the prompts on your computer to uninstall your old anti-virus software. Restart your computer to complete the removal of your previous anti-virus software. A special note for Windows 8 users: To access the Desktop from the Start screen in Windows 8, click on the Desktop tile or press the Windows logo and D keys on the keyboard.
Connect to the SMC shared network drive on mavis P: if your computer did not automatically connect after it restarted. Click once on the desktop of your computer, then right-click on the desktop of your computer and select Paste.
If prompted with a User Account Control window, click Yes to allow the following program to make changes to the computer. It may take several minutes for the McAfee VirusScan installation to complete. Please be patient with the installation process. When the installation process is almost finished, McAfee will prompt you to update the virus definition files and scan your computer.
The option to Update Now should be grayed out so it cannot be unchecked. This will ensure that McAfee will update itself as the installation process is completed. The option to Run On-Demand Scan can be unchecked if you do not wish to scan your computer immediately.
If you uncheck this option now, please try to scan your computer as soon as possible before you go to sleep for the night would be an ideal time to run a scan. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks.
Then remove all that is left in uninstall programs I remover that then boot up and shstat. Edited Jul 15, at UTC. Best Answer. Pure Capsaicin. Go back to System tree, find a test machine, yours will do or a random test user.
Select the machine again, and choose actions, agent, wake up agents, press OK on the next screen and watch the agent status on the client, it should show a new task Remove AV come through and then start to remove it, within a few minutes AV should have gone Once it says Remove AV finished, successful, go back and wake up the system again, EPO should show VSE has removed depending on what columns you have on.
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Learn More ». My suggestion would be to double check the installer, perhaps it's installing updates to get to 8. As far as the error message you are seeing, enable debug and see what the logs say with regard to McAfee. How to enable debug 5. To find the. Sign up today to participate, stay informed, earn points and establish a reputation for yourself!
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