Raaagh! Irv smash!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I am so freaking pissed right now. I am ready to chuck my laptop out the window, run it over with my car, smash it with a sledgehammer, and light the pieces on fire for good measure.

I purchased a copy of McAfee VirusScan Plus with SiteAdvisor for my laptop. I spent close to 4 hours downloading all the needed information (47 MB or so over a dial-up connection).

Then when that was finished I went to install it and was told I had to remove an incompatible program. I have a Trend Micro PC-cillin firewall that evidently needs to be removed.

AND THIS GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING SON OF A BITCH COMPUTER WILL NOT UNINSTALL IT!!!

I mean, the uninstaller program makes it look like it's doing something, but when I restart the computer it's still there.

So basically, I've wasted the money I spent on the McAfee program and the time spent to download everything. If I finally do figure out to get rid of the PC-cillin program I'll have to download McAfee all over again.

Would anybody have any idea why a program would not uninstall when asked to? I've tried about 5 times already and I have no more patience left.

[rvdammit]

My wild ass guess would be it's not uninstalling because it's not compatible with McAffee...

A light attack of google-fu suggests

http://esupport.trendmicro.com/suppo...2&id=EN-121942

[crazylegs]

All I can say is I'm suprised you bought McAfee...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I used the PCCTool as described in rvdammit's link and it uninstalled. Evrything is working fine now. Thank you.

All I can say is I'm suprised you bought McAfee...

Yeah, it may not be much, but it's better than nothing, which was what I had for too long.

[crazylegs]

Yeah, it may not be much, but it's better than nothing, which was what I had for too long.

You could have got AVG for free, I use it (and know a fair few others here do too) and it's not let a single virus in yet (touches wood)

[SteeleDragon78]

You could have got AVG for free, I use it (and know a fair few others here do too) and it's not let a single virus in yet (touches wood)

i too use avg, and install it on all the machines i build, repair, resurrect.and some just to see if it will work on the ancient pos. ive had a total of 72 viri try to hit me and got snagged by avg, had norton for a while, tried mcafee, ultimately went with avg because of that exact issue. the big ones are a pita to get rid of completely. norton leaves registry hooks that have to be cleaned up, mcafee is a resource hog on top of being clunky (to me). avg is thin and prety ok, enough glad you got it working,

[powerboy]

AVG let couple of virus's in on mine. But it was not updated. Now I run for updates once a day

[MadMike]

All I can say is I'm suprised you bought McAfee...

I agree. It used to be a good product, but now it's so damned bloated that I refuse to use it, even though I could get it for free from Comcast.

I use Avast myself, although I hear AVG is also good.