Anti Virus Pioneer McAfee Trashes The Company He Founded Via Video – NSFW
So, say you’re John McAfee and you get a pile of e-mail asking how someone uninstall the McAfee software because it is so difficult to do. What do you do? In this case, McAfee goes to YouTube trashes the company he founded with a f-bomb laced video. Note, this video is NSFW:
Now, let’s put the video aside for a second. McAfee anti-virus in my experience is an application that keeps me employed. Uninstalling it is difficult to say the least. Even if you uninstall the application, you often have to run the Consumer Products Removal Tool. And even then you may have to do some manual work and hope for the best as I sometimes can’t do much and I’m forced to back up the customer’s data and reinstall Windows fresh. The fact that you have to run an application AFTER you uninstall and then you still may have to go through some extra gymnastics to get this application off your computer is pretty bad. That doesn’t even begin to cover what it does to your PC while it’s installed, which is slow it down and make it unusable at times from my experience.
Needless to say, I do not recommend it. I should jump for joy that it exists as I get business from the fact that it exists. But I don’t because of the nightmares that it causes my customers.
Now, back to the video. The fact that he gets e-mails about this and has put out this video shows that he clearly is fed up with dealing with this seeing as the software still has his name on it. It sucks for Intel who are the current owners of McAfee. They need to come up with a response to this that involves fixing their uninstall process.
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Anti Virus Pioneer McAfee Trashes The Company He Founded Via Video – NSFW
So, say you’re John McAfee and you get a pile of e-mail asking how someone uninstall the McAfee software because it is so difficult to do. What do you do? In this case, McAfee goes to YouTube trashes the company he founded with a f-bomb laced video. Note, this video is NSFW:
Now, let’s put the video aside for a second. McAfee anti-virus in my experience is an application that keeps me employed. Uninstalling it is difficult to say the least. Even if you uninstall the application, you often have to run the Consumer Products Removal Tool. And even then you may have to do some manual work and hope for the best as I sometimes can’t do much and I’m forced to back up the customer’s data and reinstall Windows fresh. The fact that you have to run an application AFTER you uninstall and then you still may have to go through some extra gymnastics to get this application off your computer is pretty bad. That doesn’t even begin to cover what it does to your PC while it’s installed, which is slow it down and make it unusable at times from my experience.
Needless to say, I do not recommend it. I should jump for joy that it exists as I get business from the fact that it exists. But I don’t because of the nightmares that it causes my customers.
Now, back to the video. The fact that he gets e-mails about this and has put out this video shows that he clearly is fed up with dealing with this seeing as the software still has his name on it. It sucks for Intel who are the current owners of McAfee. They need to come up with a response to this that involves fixing their uninstall process.
How about it Intel?
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This entry was posted on June 20, 2013 at 7:18 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags McAfee. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.