First, I'm new to this Windows 10 Pro System. Last evening after
getting a popup Virus Alert from McAfee and that my service had expired
the day before 12/28 and I needed to to renew my service to start a
scan. Well I decided to remove it. I downloaded the recommended MCPR
Removal Tool from McAfee. After runnning the program and restarting
the system, it no longer appears in the list of running processes, but
the popups continue to show up with increasing frequency and they are beginning to drive me up the wall.
Can anyone help? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
First, I'm new to this Windows 10 Pro System. Last evening after
getting a popup Virus Alert from McAfee and that my service had expired
the day before 12/28 and I needed to to renew my service to start a
scan. Well I decided to remove it. I downloaded the recommended MCPR
Removal Tool from McAfee. After runnning the program and restarting
the system, it no longer appears in the list of running processes, but
the popups continue to show up with increasing frequency and they are beginning to drive me up the wall.
Zo <homenet@newsbill.net> wrote
First, I'm new to this Windows 10 Pro System. Last evening after
getting a popup Virus Alert from McAfee and that my service had expired
the day before 12/28 and I needed to to renew my service to start a
scan. Well I decided to remove it. I downloaded the recommended MCPR
Removal Tool from McAfee. After runnning the program and restarting
the system, it no longer appears in the list of running processes, but
the popups continue to show up with increasing frequency and they are
beginning to drive me up the wall.
Can anyone help? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Any of these uninstallers should work as they dig up the registry entries
and hidden files that sneaky programs like McAfee love to put on your PC.
<https://i.postimg.cc/SQG6v9Df/cleaners-uninstall.jpg> Uninstallers
Zo <homenet@newsbill.net> wrote:
First, I'm new to this Windows 10 Pro System. Last evening after
getting a popup Virus Alert from McAfee and that my service had expired
the day before 12/28 and I needed to to renew my service to start a
scan. Well I decided to remove it. I downloaded the recommended MCPR
Removal Tool from McAfee. After runnning the program and restarting
the system, it no longer appears in the list of running processes, but
the popups continue to show up with increasing frequency and they are
beginning to drive me up the wall.
Maybe McAfee added a scheduled event in Task Scheduler.
The procedure to remove McAfee is to first use Windows' own Add/Remove
to uninstall the program, and then you use MCPR if that fails. Did you
first try using the Windows method to uninstall McAfee?
When you restarted Windows, did you actually shutdown the computer to
then do a cold boot? Or did you go into hibernate mode which would
reload the OS in the same state it was before (which means the uninstall never completed)?
https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS101331&page=shell&shell=article-view
"You must only use the MCPR tool if the Windows removal methods shown
above don't work."
Since you never mentioned installing the software, looks like it was
garbage that came pre-bundled on the computer. Computer makers love to
dump pre-bundle garbage on their pre-built computers to bloat their
feature list.
There are other uninstallers that try harder to remove remnants of
installed programs, like Revo Uninstaller. There are some functions
missing in the free version. See the comparison table at:
https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-free/
There are a slew of uninstallers available. See:
https://www.lifewire.com/free-uninstaller-programs-2625188
I did discover that I can turn off these Notifications (did that) and
don't see them anymore.....for now.
It's a shame this App is performing just like the intruders it is
supposed to be protecting you against.
Zo <homenet@newsbill.net> wrote:
I did discover that I can turn off these Notifications (did that) and
don't see them anymore.....for now.
It's a shame this App is performing just like the intruders it is
supposed to be protecting you against.
Have you yet looked in File Explorer under:
C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files x86
to see if there are any folders with "McAfee" in their name? If a
McAfee folder still exists, look under it to see if the subfolders give
a product name. McAfee is a company name, so they may use separate subfolders to hold files for different programs of theirs.
In the address bar of File Explorer, enter:
shell:appsfolder
See if McAfee is still listed.
https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-notifications-in-windows-10-5189206
Did you use the 2nd option to disable notifications just for McAfee? I didn't think about per-sender option to disable notifications although I
have used that to shut up some apps whose notifications are fluff or
nags. I had focused on getting rid of whatever was causing the
notifications versus just hiding them.
If McAfee is listed as a notification sender, it would be specified
somewhere in the registry, so I'd start hunting there. See:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4111-turn-off-notifications-apps-senders-windows-10-a.html#option6
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings
has subkeys with the appnames. See if there is one for McAfee. If so,
the subkey is the appname which gives you something on which to search
in the registry.
By "notification", I assumed you were talking about the Taskbar toast
popups as the notifications. Is that what you are seeing? Or are you
seeing a separate popup window on the screen that has nothing to do with notification toasts? At the right-end of the Taskbar is a bubble icon
that opens the Notifications panel. When you see the McAfee popup, do
you also see it when opening the Notifications panel?
If a separate popup window appears, it may be possible to see who is the owning process that opened the window. With SysInternals Process
Viewer, you can click-and-drag sniper target icon in the toolbar to drop
on the McAfee window. PE will highlight the process that owns that
window (has a handle to the window). Right-click on that process to lok
at its Properties. The Image tab will show what program loaded that
process.
Zo <homenet@newsbill.net> wrote:
I did discover that I can turn off these Notifications (did that) and
don't see them anymore.....for now.
It's a shame this App is performing just like the intruders it is
supposed to be protecting you against.
Have you yet looked in File Explorer under:
C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files x86
to see if there are any folders with "McAfee" in their name? If a
McAfee folder still exists, look under it to see if the subfolders give
a product name. McAfee is a company name, so they may use separate subfolders to hold files for different programs of theirs.
In the address bar of File Explorer, enter:
shell:appsfolder
See if McAfee is still listed.
https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-notifications-in-windows-10-5189206
Did you use the 2nd option to disable notifications just for McAfee? I didn't think about per-sender option to disable notifications although I
have used that to shut up some apps whose notifications are fluff or
nags. I had focused on getting rid of whatever was causing the
notifications versus just hiding them.
If McAfee is listed as a notification sender, it would be specified
somewhere in the registry, so I'd start hunting there. See:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4111-turn-off-notifications-apps-senders-windows-10-a.html#option6
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings
has subkeys with the appnames. See if there is one for McAfee. If so,
the subkey is the appname which gives you something on which to search
in the registry.
By "notification", I assumed you were talking about the Taskbar toast
popups as the notifications. Is that what you are seeing? Or are you
seeing a separate popup window on the screen that has nothing to do with notification toasts? At the right-end of the Taskbar is a bubble icon
that opens the Notifications panel. When you see the McAfee popup, do
you also see it when opening the Notifications panel?
If a separate popup window appears, it may be possible to see who is the owning process that opened the window. With SysInternals Process
Viewer, you can click-and-drag sniper target icon in the toolbar to drop
on the McAfee window. PE will highlight the process that owns that
window (has a handle to the window). Right-click on that process to lok
at its Properties. The Image tab will show what program loaded that
process.
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