Panda vs McAfee

[Berserk87]

im using mcafee2005 and im trying to install panda titanium 2006 on my computer cause ive heard many ppl say its good and i want to try it but it says that its incompatable with McAfee AV, so i uninstalled McAfee, and the install pop'd up again, but it still says that i have mcafee anti-virus installed, what components do i need to remove?

p.s.

i still have McAfee firewall and anti-spyware installed.

[Maligogo]

Happened with my Kaspersky too. It doesn't play well with the McAfee Security Center.

I think for you to be able to install Panda, and any other AV for that matter, you need to get rid of the Security Center, which also means getting rid of the Firewall and AntiSpyware.

So you have two choices: Keep all your McAfee products, OR get rid of them all, install Panda, and get some free Firewall and AS product.

[Berserk87]

im just afraid of leaving my comp vunerable for 10 minutes, i think without my firewall all of a sudden everythings going to dowload stuff and crap and ill be defencless (i download alot of .... stuff)

whats the BEST free firewall? i want a personal firewall. preferable better than mcafee

[Maligogo]

If you want to be sure, you can disconnect from the internet while you are getting setup, but I'm pretty sure that your computer won't become infected in just a few minutes :p

A good personal firewall is Sygate, ZoneAlarm, or Outpost. The Windows XP firewall is fine too if you are behind a router.

Do you by any chance have a firewalled router?

[Berserk87]

i do, not sure if its setup or anything...

and i dont like winxp firewall :angry:

and ah....ya youd be suprised, it wouldnt get infected that fast if i wasnt doing anything, but if i clicked one one wrong thing and id be messed up bad. :no:

[Maligogo]

Well in that case, just disconnect from the internet until you install both the AV and Firewall. Then you're home free :p

[Berserk87]

im using winxp firewall during install but i want a better firewall.

[Berserk87]

wtf?

i uninstalled all of my mcafee stuff, but security center said "error occured during uninstall".

and i disable all mcafee things from start up, but panda still says that mcafee is installed, is there a way to bypass it? or to remove security center from the add/remove thing?!?!

[shooter468]

when trying to install and uninstall antivirus products

its really better to format your computer

coz some stuff remains thats impossible to remove

[Berserk87]

anyone have a list of ALL mcafee components on my comp or an app to remove it all?

[THE BAT]

im just afraid of leaving my comp vunerable for 10 minutes, i think without my firewall all of a sudden everythings going to dowload stuff and crap and ill be defencless (i download alot of .... stuff)

whats the BEST free firewall? i want a personal firewall. preferable better than mcafee

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McAfee firewall is good.

[joe_banana]

yah some stuff remain there but to format is overkill.

[Berserk87]

McAfee firewall is good.

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yes it is, when i run port scan tests ALL ports come up as stealth. :D

so does anyone have a list of everything to remove/delete of mcafee to make panda install? :crazy:

[ramian]

After uninstalling all McAfee products, why not use a registry cleaner to get rid of the orphan registry entries?

RegSeeker has proven to be pretty good at cleaning out orphan entries (for me at least). I've also bought RegSupreme (not the more expensive Pro version) which seems to clean out the few things that RegSeeker (which btw, is free) missed.

[joe_banana]

OT: what's orphan entries? is it safe to remove all of them cos most of them are from my programs that are still installed i think. n how bout OLE? thanks

[ramian]

Orphan registry entries are registry settings left behind by programs when they are uninstalled. Almost all program uninstallers never remove all registry entries. So, when the programs' files are removed, the registry entries still remain and point to non-existent files on the hard disk. The reason they should be removed is that they tend to take up lots of space, which may potentially slow down your registry access due to fragmentation.

It's safe to delete everything RegSeeker finds. If it inadvertently deletes something, it creates a backup which you can easily restore.