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mcafee stinger no longer useful - almost malware itself

Posted by plumsauce, 05-16-2015, 11:21 PM
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threa...ps-com.376067/ The news is starting to spread. Stinger used to be a favourite tool to scan suspect files. No more. It now installs a service, unannounced, during the first run ... before you even get to set any options. There are also filter drivers installed on the file system. What it takes to do a semi-reasonable cleanup, by all means not perfect: -- note the name of the main service(it starts two more hidden ones) -- note the file name pattern for removal -- use regedit to delete the three service keys -- reboot system, preferably in safe mode -- use regedit to do some judicious registry surgery being sure not to miss the certificate entries it adds for McAfee Trust -- delete the executable files And no, their removal tool does not actually work. Nor is uninstall available in control panel. Please refrain from recommending this piece of scumware to friends family, clients and associates GRRRRR!!!! Last edited by plumsauce; 05-16-2015 at 11:25 PM.
Posted by Andei, 05-16-2015, 11:45 PM
Yes, unfortunately it got really bad for McAfee (as an entire product), I was using it until (maybe) 3 years ago, right about the time where they accidentally released that update that messed up any PC with WindowsXP on it (fortunately I wasn't running XP at the time). But it only got worse and worse. I switched to Avast back then and was very pleased with it, but recently gave it up in favor of AVG, since for some reason Avast was turning a beast of a PC into a barely moving piece of garbage after 3-4 days of uptime. I'm pretty pleased now with AVG.
Posted by Wintereise, 05-17-2015, 12:37 AM
I refuse to believe anything McAfee has ever created can be useful. Crapware and more crapware abound.
Posted by HRR--, 05-17-2015, 02:16 AM
Not even McAfee use McAfee. Hey but dont be confused, lots of corporation using their endpoint solutions.