McAfee problem

When I purchased my new computer Mc Afee came with it on a 30 day trial basis. I don't want Mcafee and never did. I use Norton (which may or may not be better, but that is not the point). I uninstalled mcafee and got rid of everything but it KEEPS coming back. I have got rid of it 3 times today and it is back now. It is in my program files and I guess it always will be. Today I shut off system restore and deleted everything. At first it wouldn't let me delete it but finally I succeeded. It still came back! My question is what can I do to dump this thing for good? I may even get rid of Norton too and use one of the ones that you guys recomended. But right now I want to dump mcafee.

Don

System-- Gateway FX400 Intel (R) Pentium D CPU 2.80 GHZ 512 ram 84% free space
Nvidea 6200 turbo cache 82.12 drivers
Windows xp pro media center edition version2002 service pack 2

 

Check see if mcafee is running cnt alt del processes, mpfservice.exe and mpfagent.exe,if they arnt running its just a case of removing the file,
Turn on system restore create a restore point THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT incase it screws up

restart in safe mode,go to add\remove programs uninstall it,check C:\ to see if its gone if all the files havn't gone delete them,go to run type regedit double click hkeylocal machine\expand software\ find mcaffee.com right click and delete

restart normally it should be gone

 

I have never started my machine in safe mode so I need a little advice on that. Thanks

Don

 

F8 does nothing for me. could it be different for this media edition xp pro?

Don

 

Yup I got it fixed. Thank you for your help.

Don

 

I am using AVG. I read about it and listened to comments here and it sounds like it will do the job just fine for me. Thanks a lot for your help and everybody else that chipped in. In order to straighten the whole mess out I had to format my computer (bummer) but Mcafee just would not go out and it didn't show in the add/remove programs.

Don