Re: Uninstalling AOL and McAfee Security Centre

I agree on Dell's motivation on this Fluff/Add-ons. If they are
customer oriented, they'd avoid cluttering up a brand new PC.
What I still cannot figure out is why very few vendors offer a
PC tweaked/tuned for performance.They (Vendors) seem to
try and create a Startups & Watchdog slide show waiting on
the PC to finish booting. I'm still marketing "De-Dell-ifying",
can't compete on hardware,but I'll beat them every time on a
setup & configuration job. Many folks bitch about MS as a
"Greed Factory", in my mind there are other more deserving
companies of that description.

"Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
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> Mian Ali wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently got Dell computer with Window XP sp2. It came with AOL and
>> McAfee Security Centre (limited time) preinstalled. I have my own
>> security softwares such as spyware blaster, spybot search and destroy,
>> Adaware and Microsoft Antispyware etc. I also subscribe to EZArmor. I
>> want to install EZArmor and I have uninstall the McAfee. There is no
>> entry in the Add/Remove program for the Security Center. The only entry I
>> see in the Add/Remove is "McAfee Uninstaller". Also it seems the McAfee
>> Security Centre is integrated with Windows Security. When I click on
>> security center in Contro Panel, it shows McAfee antivirus and firewall
>> etc.
>>
>> Just wondering if this the normal entry for McAfee Centre in the
>> Add/Remove? I searched McAfee helpdesk but could not find anything about
>> "McAfee Uninstaller" in Add/Remove.
>>
>> Called the Dell technical help and he did not know how to do it but
>> suggested horrible way to uninstall the program. He suggested just delete
>> the McAfee folder from your computer. Amazing!
>>
>> Sorry of the long post. Also will appreciate some suggestions about
>> unistalling AOL. Heard some scary stories about it. What cautions should
>> I take?
>> Thanks for your help.
>> Mian
>>
>>
>
> Question is, does Dell make more money selling the computer or from the
> likes of AOL and McAfee? I would say they might even lose money on the
> computer but make it up by being paid to put garbage all over the machine.
>
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>
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