To be fair, he provided instructions.
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BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
McAfee should also be banned. That thing is near impossible to remove.
takeda@lemmy.world 6 months ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I had a laptop with it preinstalled, when I wasn’t a Linux user yet.
That video by late John McAffee was good. Even though he was a conspiracy theorist from the most clueless kind of libertarians - that kind who think they can go to a Latin American country with corrupt law enforcement and feel like alpha there. I mean, even if they can, one shouldn’t mix up tourism and immigration, as they say in Russian.
4vgj0e@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Avast Antivirus should be banned too, they did a lot of shady shit
Reviever@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i find it quite easy to remove…why is it that hard in your opinion?
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Not to give too much away. I’ve had to remove consumer and enterprise versions before.
How enterprise is supposed to go is you get the deletion key. Uninstall restart the machine and it should be gone. Except that didn’t always happen. So you would do it again which sometimes worked or McAfee says the deltion key is now wrong, probably because it didn’t verify the uninstall. So you had to delete certain files in it’s installation folder run regular windows uninstall that hopefully finally kills it. I think at some point a downloaded uninstaller was used but I don’t really remember.
Consumer was an “easier” uninstall mostly cus we had a script. Try windows uninstall normally or if that doesn’t work get the McAfee uninstaller online, run in command line with options (most of the time it was required and not doing so was an extra unessicsry step). You also had to check other places to make sure you got everything (it was a while ago I forgot what and where) because McAfee still sometimes just keeps running in the background doing nothing (hopefully) but hogging reasources.
Was a while ago so for all I know McAfee got it’s shit together, but I would be surprised if they did.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even on the consumer side, McAfee has historically been hard to uninstall. It would do shit like leave an installer after uninstallation, so it would automatically reinstall the next time you rebooted. After running Windows’ built in uninstaller, you still have to go manually remove files to prevent it from just adding itself back again.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But is not Russian, just like Instagram is not Chinese.
zaph@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Do you mean tiktok? Because it’s quite a bit more Russian than Instagram is Chinese unless there’s some crazy zuck is owned by China conspiracy I’m unaware of.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 6 months ago
McAfee is not Russan, just like Instagram is not Chinese (I thought it was clear enough).
Yes it’s a clear reference to TikTok, which I don’t like for many many reasons, but none of those reasons is why it was banned, it’s because it’s Chinese.
zaph@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Oh I understand now. I thought you were saying Kaspersky not McAfee. I didn’t think they were saying McAfee was Russian, just absolute garbage bordering malware.