Re: McAfee VirusScan disables and enables randomly

Quarterback wrote:

To MowGreen
My problem seems to be that I have two Anti-Virus programs on my
computer interfering with each other and your recommendation is that I
add another
anti-virus program which will add hidden files to my system. I'm not
an expert at this at all, but it seems clear that that will just gum
things up even more and uninstalling the unwanted Anti-Virus software
will be even more
difficult. I'm not taking that route.
I believe I need direction on how to wipe the Microsoft Anti-Virus
software out of my machine, so the A-V program I paid for can work.
Quarterback

If you read Mow's instructions more carefully, you would have seen that
he was *not* suggesting that you install another antivirus. He
suggested that you do an online scan.

There is no way that anyone reading your posts knows what you have
installed. Look in Add/Remove Programs and uninstall whatever you are
calling "Microsoft Anti-Virus". There is no such thing, btw. There is
MS One Care, but I haven't seen this preinstalled on any OEM machines.

A good alternative for you might be to consider taking the machine to a
professional computer repair shop (not your local version of
BigStoreUSA). Someone who knows what they are doing and can do a
hands-on diagnosis of the machine will be able to figure out the
problems fairly quickly.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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