Best way to upgrade McAfee?

[Jim Whitman]

I have a friend who bought a Dell over a year ago. It had whichever version
of McAfee anti-virus came with Dell at the time. I have McAfee VirusScan
10 and am going to stop by in a couple of days to install it on his system.
What is the best way to do this? Uninstall the McAfee anti-virus on his
system and do a fresh install VirusScan 10? Or keep the current McAfee on
there and install VirusScan 10 as an upgrade? TIA

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Jim Whitman" <[email protected]>

| I have a friend who bought a Dell over a year ago. It had whichever version
| of McAfee anti-virus came with Dell at the time. I have McAfee VirusScan
| 10 and am going to stop by in a couple of days to install it on his system.
| What is the best way to do this? Uninstall the McAfee anti-virus on his
| system and do a fresh install VirusScan 10? Or keep the current McAfee on
| there and install VirusScan 10 as an upgrade? TIA

Remove the old version via the "add/remove programs" Control Panel applet then reboot the
PC.
Then install McAfee VirusScan v10.

 

[Charlie]

(1) Remove the McAfee software thru Add/Remove Programs
(2) Install Norton Internet Security 2006

 

[Ian Kenefick]

(1) Remove the McAfee software thru Add/Remove Programs
(2) Install Norton Internet Security 2006

lol, One step forward, Two steps backwards. *You* may wish to
re-evaluate the software you use to protect you from online threats.
You may find that there are better solutions available

P.S. to OP: Uninstall McAfee Antivirus and Install the latest version.
This is the best way to upgrade. It's known as a clean install.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Charlie" <[email protected]>

| (1) Remove the McAfee software thru Add/Remove Programs
| (2) Install Norton Internet Security 2006
|
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|
| Charlie

Thanx for the laugh Charlie ;-)

 

[PapaBear]

(1) Remove the McAfee software thru Add/Remove Programs
(2) Install Norton Internet Security 2006
(3)Reformat hard drive and start over

 

[Befunge Sudoku]

I have a friend who bought a Dell over a year ago. It had whichever version
of McAfee anti-virus came with Dell at the time. I have McAfee VirusScan
10 and am going to stop by in a couple of days to install it on his system.
What is the best way to do this? Uninstall the McAfee anti-virus on his
system and do a fresh install VirusScan 10? Or keep the current McAfee on
there and install VirusScan 10 as an upgrade? TIA

Uninst the old first.
There are some interesting bugs which are the result of
installing certain versions over certain other versions.

 

[Peter]

Manually uninstalling previous versions of Viruscan:

VS 8x and 9x:
http://tools.mcafeehelp.com/doc.php?siteid=1&docid=71541&support=ts

VS 5x, 6x, 7x:
http://tools.mcafeehelp.com/doc.php?siteid=1&docid=68717&support=ts