Solve : Antivirus Shutoff?

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Answer» Hi, I am wondering how exactly to turn off antivrus without uninstalling it. I am using the lates version of Mcaffee. If I disable the PROTECTION, the process that still recognizes potential threats still makes the effort to delete the file. After this, I decided to go into the process manager and delete all the "Mc" processes. One always remains, and I assume it is the one that stops viruses. That process cannot be killed. I cannot do it. Is there any way, or would someone have to uninstall the program to ultimately stop its protection. P.S. The exception to this is of course Safe Mode. I am wondering, what registry SERVICES keep it intact. I remember once dealing with an AIM virus that had a registry key that bound itself to a system service. and that stopped its process from being terminated. I am wondering if this might be the same case. Thank you. Quote Hi, I am wondering how exactly to turn off antivrus without uninstalling it. I am using the lates version of Mcaffee. If I disable the protection, the process that still recognizes potential threats still makes the effort to delete the file. After this, I decided to go into the process manager and delete all the "Mc" processes. One always remains, and I assume it is the one that stops viruses. That process cannot be killed. I cannot do it. Is there any way, or would someone have to uninstall the program to ultimately stop its protection. P.S. The exception to this is of course Safe Mode. I am wondering, what registry services keep it intact. I remember once dealing with an AIM virus that had a registry key that bound itself to a system service. and that stopped its process from being terminated. I am wondering if this might be the same case. Thank you. so far i understand in AV, let say you will stop the process now, and try to install something but LATER when you turn-on again your AV, it will scan then delete the file that AV thinks threat So try to go in "exception" tools of your McAffee then put that file into exception You could type MSCONFIG in the run menu. Go check in the startup pane for any McFee things that starts up and disable them. Alternatively you could type REGEDIT in the run menu and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/ and HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/ Under both those there should be: RUN/blah blah There you'll find the stuff that starts up with windows. You could just RENAME the McFee stuff there so it doesn't start up.And backup your registry before you even think about editing it!

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Hi, I am wondering how exactly to turn off antivrus without uninstalling it. I am using the lates version of Mcaffee. If I disable the PROTECTION, the process that still recognizes potential threats still makes the effort to delete the file. After this, I decided to go into the process manager and delete all the "Mc" processes. One always remains, and I assume it is the one that stops viruses. That process cannot be killed. I cannot do it. Is there any way, or would someone have to uninstall the program to ultimately stop its protection.

P.S. The exception to this is of course Safe Mode. I am wondering, what registry SERVICES keep it intact. I remember once dealing with an AIM virus that had a registry key that bound itself to a system service. and that stopped its process from being terminated. I am wondering if this might be the same case.

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Hi, I am wondering how exactly to turn off antivrus without uninstalling it. I am using the lates version of Mcaffee. If I disable the protection, the process that still recognizes potential threats still makes the effort to delete the file. After this, I decided to go into the process manager and delete all the "Mc" processes. One always remains, and I assume it is the one that stops viruses. That process cannot be killed. I cannot do it. Is there any way, or would someone have to uninstall the program to ultimately stop its protection.
P.S. The exception to this is of course Safe Mode. I am wondering, what registry services keep it intact. I remember once dealing with an AIM virus that had a registry key that bound itself to a system service. and that stopped its process from being terminated. I am wondering if this might be the same case.
Thank you.

so far i understand in AV, let say you will stop the process now, and try to install something but LATER when you turn-on again your AV, it will scan then delete the file that AV thinks threat

So try to go in "exception" tools of your McAffee then put that file into exception
You could type MSCONFIG in the run menu. Go check in the startup pane for any McFee things that starts up and disable them.

Alternatively you could type REGEDIT in the run menu and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/

and

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/

Under both those there should be: RUN/blah blah

There you'll find the stuff that starts up with windows. You could just RENAME the McFee stuff there so it doesn't start up.And backup your registry before you even think about editing it!

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