I will let others answer your specific question about McAfee, but may I ask, if you uninstalled McAfee a while ago in favor of an anti-AdAware, what are you using for anti-virus?
I assume you mean Lavasoft's AdAware, but that only finds adware. It is not an anti-virus scanner, and without that, your computer OS is vulnerable.
About McAfee. If you open the System Configuration Editor, (Start > Run, type in msconfig and click OK), then go to the Startup tab, check through the list for anything McAfee based. If you find anything, remove the tick, then reboot the computer.
Make sure you turn the Windows Firewall on as soon as possible.
Mark
still shows active on PC.
Dell-xps500-512ram-12gHD-Pent-lll....came with 98se.....now has XP.
Came with free McAfee Suite pre-installed, after 6 months went to free Ad-aware after that. Anyway, when I go to security center in control panel it says mcafee firewall is on and windows FW is off. I turned on Windows FW and it said having 2 on at the same time could cause problems, so I turned Windows FW off. I uninstalled mcafee a long time ago using their removal tool and just lately did it again when I seen the FW still active.Did a search on my PC for all things mcafee and nothing. Any ideas how to get rid of it?

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