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Last reply by Nicholas Poh Solved. Roger 4 Tellurium. McAfee keeps on quarantining exe file. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions. Community Accepted Solution. Replies 3. Not applicable. Good luck. Nicholas Poh 3 Silver. McAfee actually found the best way to keep customers away. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Disable automatic updates. You'll do this in the same way in which you disabled Real-Time Scanning and the Firewall.

Click the gear icon again, then click Scheduled scans. It's at the bottom of the "Mac Security" group of options. Unlock the Full and Custom Scan Settings page. Click the gear icon and enter your administrator password, then click OK. Click the Weekly drop-down box. It's on the far-left side of the "Scheduled scans" page.

If you don't see this option, click the Scheduled scans tab near the top of the page. Click Never. Doing so prevents McAfee from re-activating itself to scan your computer. Click the gear icon again, then click McAfee SiteAdvisor. It's near the bottom of the drop-down menu. SiteAdvisor is responsible for McAfee's presence in your Mac's browsers.

Disable SiteAdvisor. Click the switch in the top-right corner of the SiteAdvisor page to do so. You may have to click the lock icon and enter your administrator password in order to be able to click the switch.

Close the settings window. Your Mac's McAfee program should now be completely disabled. Remove McAfee from your Mac. If you want to completely remove McAfee's notifications, icons, and all other forms of its presence from your Mac, you'll have to uninstall McAfee itself. No, only one antivirus can be run at a time so that they won't conflict with each other.

Not Helpful 4 Helpful 3. Go to the control panel, then uninstall a program. Find McAfee, and click uninstall. You may need an additional confirmation. Not Helpful 12 Helpful 8.

The "system tray," also known as the notification area, is an area at the bottom-right corner of your screen. It has the clock and has icons to open programs, notifications, or settings Action Center, volume, network, keyboard, etc. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 1. As long as you are using one Antivirus program you should be fine.

Not Helpful 14 Helpful 4. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. It's wise to stay offline while your antivirus program is disabled. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Your computer is at risk from various online threats when anti-virus software is turned off. You Might Also Like How to. How to. About This Article. Written by:. Co-authors: Updated: May 14, Article Summary X 1. Deutsch: Mc Afee deaktivieren. Italiano: Disabilitare McAfee. Bahasa Indonesia: Menonaktifkan McAfee.

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