add/remove mcafee

I downloaded the latest update to mcafee (process worked fine for 10months) but this time its honked. Win98 screen hangups and can't get past it. Had to manually delete the 2 network associate folders in dos, also had to remove the virus scan exe entry from the autoexec.bat file to be able to boot. Now I can boot, and win 98 comes up , but Add/remove still shows the entry for mcafee (thinks its installed) - remove won't do it of course. And re-installing mcafee doesn't work as crumbs are still left behind and its not overwriting. I searched reg edit for mcafee, mc, nai, virus, network associates, virus, vscan, etc and didn't find the crumbs there. Any clues on how to clear mcafee from the add/remove listing? And clues where else it might have left crumbs behind on the hard drive and registry. Original version of mcafee was 4.5 but that's many many updates ago. McAfee cd sez its uninstalling, and then installing, but of course it doesn't. thanks

 

I see some stuff at HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall
Is it a problem ?

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add/remove programs and mcafee

not sure what you mean by "stuff "

I have searched the registry and deleted the 2 entries I found earlier for mcafee. I don't find ANY more entries in the registry when I search for "mcafee ", "NAI ", "Virus ", "network associates ", or "virusscan ".
Looks clean, but looks are deceiving.

I still have the ghost entry for mcafee showing up in the add/remove control panel listing - it thinks its still installed. And mcafee will not reload off the cd as its finding some crumb left behind elsewhere

 

Well, i was under the impression that the entries in add/remove are listed at the referenced key \uninstall. It should be exactly as in the add/remove listing, "exact text ". ...err i should say : there will be a text string below this key with the exact same text as in add/remove.

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found 5 folders with bizarre titles in that location. you provided and I poked inside. The edit, find, command in the reg editor apparantly isn't all that great. Under the folder with the bizarre and lengthy 678## title I found a bunch of entires all for mcafee, nai is also there and that's another target I had searched for. I deleted that bizarre folder and my ghost entry in the add/remove list is now gone. so thanks for that hint.

Tried reloading mcafee 4.5 already and it must be looking for a specific target on the hard drive or registry I have yet to remove - it acknowledges there was a version loaded previously, prompts me and asks if I want it removed, I agee, and it chunks away and then sez it is reloading the new version... but it doesn't. Must think its installed and hunky dory and does not overwrite it after it finds whatever target its checking for initially. So no Mcafee reinstalled so far.

One problem down...1 more to go !

 

McAffee still detecting some dregs, could be many things ... do you have an McAffee.ini in your windows directory/somewhere ? Well probably a registry key, have you tried a registry cleaner ?
EasyCleaner
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,16180,00.asp
or RegSeeker (has a search function better than 98)
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
or the smart uninstaller might help:
http://www.webattack.com/get/smartuninstaller.shtml


no need to delete all the stuff found ... just stuff related to McAffee.
remember, if you crash windows doing all this reg stuff : msdos : scanreg /restore

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hate to download any more unknown s/w today - especially with no virus s/w running. But it may well come to that. thanks for the hints

 

Ya, i hear ya. msdos : scanreg /fix might get rid of some garbage.

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Go get Regcleaner. After installing and running it, it will open at the Software tab, if any MacAffee entries are left, check them off and remove. Then click on the Uninstall tab, and remove them.
Then go to the toolbar at Options\Registry Cleanup\OLE Cleaner\Extra Powerful.
Then go to the toobbar at Tools\Registry Cleanup\Do Them All.
It usually is safe to remove everything found.

 

this document may help imo...

http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/displayDoc.asp?frames=1&docID=68717&param1=245&PopularFAQ=YES

 

reg sweeper worked great. Deleted MANY files still left behind on the hard drive (per nai's pages) and mcafee cd 4.5 says its reloading but it still doesn't. Great product when it works, shoot the programmer when it doesn't?

 

You could get AVG, a free AV program that works very good. They ask for an email, and that is only for the registration number and the download link. No spam.
The link is below.