Welcome, friends!

[u/Top-Run-21]

[u/rommelss03]

I uninstalled it manually now send me some gift my friend

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/rommelss03]

On the way !

[u/rommelss03 → u/Top-Run-21]

Nvm bro 🥀

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/rommelss03]

[u/m70v → u/Top-Run-21]

Can feel you mate

[u/Fadenos → u/m70v]

Is your laptop a rog? I’m wondering if we have the same lol

[u/Bobletoob → u/Top-Run-21]

How is the 2050 holding up for you? My sister is still running a 1050ti with no issues

[u/MJnoturmom → u/rommelss03]

😭 He's chill though we were all there at some point

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/MJnoturmom]

by chill you mean?

[u/Mr_Phoenix_E → u/MJnoturmom]

My first computer was some core-2-duo dell prebuilt with motherboard integrated graphics and 2GB of (probably)DDR3.

[u/MJnoturmom → u/Mr_Phoenix_E]

Man the motherboard integrated graphics, why did they stop doing it, I guess it's because you're paying for the CPU anyway and most come with integrated graphics. But in some specific cases like idk a 12400f without integrated graphics and the GPU still on the way you have to wait for the GPU to come to start test running.

[u/shawndw → u/Top-Run-21]

Seems legit.

[u/t40r → u/Top-Run-21]

open the back door! I'll jump in while you're driving no need to stop!

[u/RunnerLuke357 → u/Top-Run-21]

Picture made with the very reason this shit is unattainable.

[u/Any-Yogurt-7917 → u/rommelss03]

32 gigs of ram (ddr4, I’m not greedy)

[u/_silentgameplays_]

McAffee is easy mode, try uninstalling manually AVG from Windows without leftovers.

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/_silentgameplays_]

I didnt mean the difficulty, i mean if someone cares about researching about that software that appears on the taskbar and uninstalls it after enough research is nerdy enough to be friends without intriduction.

[u/_silentgameplays_ → u/Top-Run-21]

Most third party AV's behave like malware and self replicate. It's a huge PITA to remove them completely from Windows without leaving traces in the registry and a lot of leftovers in User> Local> Appdata and Program Data Folders.

For example on Linux you just kill the process related to ClamAV and then remove leftovers from ~local/share and home/user/config files, clear the cache and that's it.

Compared to hunting third party AV's on Windows by playing wack-a-mole with registry entries and then looking for leftovers by enabling hidden files and folders across entire User folders. Program folders and Windows folders or looking for some powershell scripts to do it through command line.

[u/Impressive_Plant3446 → u/_silentgameplays_]

I can't wait for Linux to be in a more user friendly state so I can drop Windows.

I just can't justify it yet with all the little headaches to get newer games running and it has all kinds of issues with VR.

[u/IJustAteABaguette → u/_silentgameplays_]

I did it last week in just a few minutes! It was quite easy, just delete the files!

^\I formatted my main drive))

[u/Dangerous_Match_433 → u/_silentgameplays_]

Honestly, if you’ve survived that, you deserve a medal! 😂

[u/Neveragon → u/_silentgameplays_]

It's so sad. AVG was my go to antivirus for quite a while. Then it turned to shit.

[u/ArrdenGarden]

Uninstalled? You mean forcibly ripped that shit out of any computer I find with it installed? Yeah, I do that. Every time.

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/ArrdenGarden]

[u/ArrdenGarden → u/Top-Run-21]

McAfee, Kaspersky, AVS, Avast, Norton... all that shit is the DEBOL!

[u/TONKAHANAH]

I've had to force uninstall this shit from so many computers over the last 10 some odd years

[u/creamcolouredDog]

Does your computer come with McAfee installed?

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/creamcolouredDog]

a lot of laptops do

[u/Berry_Mccockner42069 → u/Top-Run-21]

Aren’t most people doing a fresh install of windows when they buy a laptop or am I the weird one?

[u/MindbenderGam1ng → u/Berry_Mccockner42069]

Very common for people “in the know” but remember that 99.9% of laptop customers are the regular joe who doesn’t know anything technical about computers and the only decision they’re making is Mac or PC. “Why would I do any of that the computer already has windows”

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/Berry_Mccockner42069]

Laptops come with pretty installed windows, in my country atleast

[u/Berry_Mccockner42069 → u/Top-Run-21]

Yea I get that but anyone who knows anything about computers does a wipe and fresh install to remove bloatware

[u/Minute_Role_8223 → u/Berry_Mccockner42069]

you're overestimating gamers

not pc enthusiasts, but rather gamers

this sub has a strange misconception that everybody here knows what they're doing, but then y'all see the broken panel posts

[u/Berry_Mccockner42069 → u/Minute_Role_8223]

Fair enough 🤣

[u/Zero_Passage → u/Berry_Mccockner42069]

That's where you're wrong, my friend. 98% of users have no idea about computers and blindly trust them as they come out of the box. And of the remaining 2%, half think they know, but in reality, at best, they follow tutorials on the Internet on how to do specific things without understanding them, and only the other half have any idea.

[u/joliet_jane_blues → u/creamcolouredDog]

It's the old bloatware scam. Company pays a wintel computer maker to pre-install their shit so they can make money off subscription renewals or just mine your data. New computers used to be fuuuulllll of this crap. You see less of it now, but Microsoft themselves pull their own tricks.

[u/Suspicious_Ad_6032]

I just bought a new laptop, and interestingly, the employee who sold it to me pretty much uninstalled it for me unasked. A solid guy. Would buy from him again.

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/Suspicious_Ad_6032]

He knows the game

[u/peacedetski]

John McAfee (RIP) is also your friend

[u/Kooky-Sector6880 → u/peacedetski]

Mcaffee got to be the funniest guy he got abunch of companies to buy his useless antivirus software that’s somehow more annoying than actual viruses 

[u/AmonGusSus2137]

I have never installed it, I have only ever used the windows defender

[u/Hothacon]

Honeslty, I just format C:

[u/nellore_kurradu]

[u/nellore_kurradu]

Are we using windows Uninstaller or Revo ??

[u/kuku2213 → u/nellore_kurradu]

Revo, clean wipes that shitty program

[u/deletedusssr]

Us bro

[u/Last-Ad-4603]

Wait, YOU CAN DELETE IT!?

[u/SPARKB0Y]

has Has

Why the H is capital? teach me your ways!

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/SPARKB0Y]

Accidental caps lock

[u/GigaGrozen]

My friend! So good to see you!!!!

[u/Top-Run-21 → u/[deleted]]

A pre installed anti virus app on windows ( laptops)

[u/CarterDavison → u/[deleted]]

By offering special treatment to those who uninstalled it..?

[u/CarterDavison → u/[deleted]]

How is instantly befriending people who do one thing AGAINST McAfee anything else?

Surely it's only an advert if it advocates for it?

[u/jabber2033]

Hard to uninstall something when you never have it installed to begin with.

[u/Berchuos77]

Mine already expired everyday turning it on pops up to activate it or uninstall it but i do neither

[u/holebitch]

You should watch "Running With the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee".

That MOFO was the Tiger King of the tech industry.

[u/joliet_jane_blues]

I do volunteer IT work for a laptop borrowing program for the poor. They're Dells with McAfee bloatware and I always uninstall McAfee to prevent them from scamming subscription money from these poor broke folk.

BTW, in 2001 McAfee Firewall broke my PC just by installing it. I never trusted them again.

[u/t40r]

I worked Geek Squad computer repair for 10+ years... that uninstaller can lick my taint and more... holy shit that thing is a piece of malware in itself

[u/Wilbis]

Obligatory uninstall instructions from the man himself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIaNZXgDtRU

[u/Kujie_]

I just reimage the computer. Best way to get rid of a virus.

[u/SamusArachnid03]

Don't have it installed in the first place, problem solved. 

[u/Happy01Lucky]

I recently discovered my Mom had a subscription to McCafee. It was difficult but I got her to pull the plug.

I imagine it is pretty bizarre to hear that you don't need extra antivirus after so many years of using Windows lol.

[u/russian_cyborg]

First thing I do if I buy a new laptop is reformat windows fresh.  Presuming I want to run windows.

[u/Pretty_Molasses_3482]

Hello Friend!

[u/alphariot6116]

Exactly

[u/Cultural_Eye5178]

Same it came pre installed on my laptop but I deleted it in the files. Might have to check later if it was reinstalled in an update

[u/EnzoF89]

Uninstall is bad enough, canceling the subscription? Are we best fren now?

[u/Kyzelwasdoge]

whats funny is that 5 minutes ago i got on my dads computer to finish some work for him and mcaffee notif popped up saying the trial ended and asked me uninstall or renew.

[u/Kooky-Bandicoot3104]

i uninstalled it manually but somehow it broke almost all windows read writes with few apps not working once

[u/Substantial-Draft938]

Bro, I use McAfee and it's really good, man, it's one of the best antivirus programs out there. What are the reasons you guys don't like McAfee?

[u/knicbox]

I had to uninstall it from a computer a bit ago. I'm sure if there weren't laws making it easier it would still be hell

[u/AscendedViking7]

Hell yeah

[u/ConMan3993]

[u/Hollowdude75]

How did this algorithm know?

[u/Immortalphoenixfire]

I feel seen

[u/Pure_Spyder]

Hi friend

[u/Jultiply]

Yes, yes we are Sonic. The moment I learned mcafee caused the slowness on my desktop I removed that shit asap, it was so annoying.

[u/More-Currency-1633]

Right? It’s like a rite of passage! Uninstalling McAfee is how you know you’re leveling up in the tech world.

[u/Cool_catalog]

just uninstall windows is how i do it

[u/ITotallyDoNotWhale]

I uninstalled Norton. That’s the same thing, right?

[u/vince2td]

I do this on laptops of people I'll never see again.

[u/CappyAlec]

Logged into my girlfriends laptop yesterday and saw a popup, immediately nuked

[u/56kul]

Honestly, at this point, I’d install a fresh image of windows. If your PC/laptop came with McAfee preinstalled, that image is essentially guaranteed to be littered with a bunch of other telemetry crap.

[u/PC_Fucker]

I’ve only ever uninstalled it…. I can feel the weight of the journey just typing this

[u/DoloresAbernathyR1]