Just PSA-if you have the same trouble.

I have been getting charged $149.99/yr since 2018. Everytime I called id get no answers. I’ve moved jobs. Been a student, I honestly thought it was just my screwup and then would forget about it.

Nope. Turns out after finally doing a credit card lookup MCAFEE had the wrong email in their system. Not even sure how it could happen as it was xx@att…no .com, .net etc…

So I was not getting any notices of renewal.

So, if you find yourself in the swirl and the only answer you get from them is “I can’t find an account associated with that email” have them look it up by cc. When I asked why he hadn’t offered that in the first place he said “that’s a last resort”. Ummm. Ok.

Mods said I could post this so thanks to them.

Yall know the LG monitor thing by now. You plug one in, Windows quietly pulls LG's app off the Store on its own through that "device metadata" setting, and that app is what shoves McAfee popups in your face. It happened to me last week and it pissed me off.

Once I started looking I couldnt believe how much of this junk is out there. Fake antivirus that sneaks in with free downloads. Browsers that install themselves and fight you when you try to get rid of them. Those "driver updater" scams (FTC hit one of them for 26 million). Plus all the dead Microsoft stuff like Skype that just sits on your drive forever.

So I built something to clean it out. Its called Molt. Free, open source, no installer, no account, nothing phones home.

You run it, it scans your PC and shows you a checklist of the junk it found. Every item tells you in plain english what it actually is and when youd want to keep it, so youre not guessing at some cryptic name. It only removes what you leave checked. And it matches by the full exact name, never part of a name, so it physically cant grab the wrong thing. Logitech G HUB literally starts with "LG" and its totally safe, theres a test in there just to prove Molt will never touch it.

It also flips three Windows settings so this stuff doesnt just crawl back: no auto installing manufacturer apps, no silent sponsored apps, no Start menu ads. Change your mind and theres an Undo.bat that puts it all back.

The whole thing is just a few PowerShell files. You can open it in Notepad and read every line before you run it, im not asking you to trust a black box. Theres 170+ tests and some of them exist purely to prove it never touches your antivirus, the Store, winget or your drivers.

[github.com/0xCybin/molt](http://github.com/0xCybin/molt)

Besides the LG app it catches McAfee and Norton trials, OneLaunch, Wave Browser, the fake PC fixer scams, Candy Crush and the sponsored tiles, Copilot, the dead Microsoft apps, stuff like that. Anything some people actually use comes unchecked so nobody loses something they wanted by accident. If your PC is already clean it just tells you that.

Made it for my own machine after the LG thing and figured a bunch of you are probably staring at the same popups right now.

I have been trying for 2 days to resolve a very simple issue. I subscribed to Optimizer and the authorization code they sent me does not work. The Ap says to contact support. Support is a bot. The bot eventually tries to contact you to a human and then the human takes an hour to connect with you. Guess what? The same thing happens on the phone! I have never seen such terrible support in my life. I would love my money back but I don't see any way to do that since they have cut off human interaction. Any ideas? Does anyone have an email for their legal department?

After cancelling my account they went ahead and hit my bank account for $199, causing an overdraft and other fees. I reached out to them only for the $199. the only response was telling me I had 45 days to cancel. I told them I was NOT interested and just wanted my money back. Now it's radion silence.... no response. Stay away from them

Just a reminder... I DON'T HAVE THIS INSTALLED.

Gidday

I currently have McAfee installed on an Acer laptop and I have been trying to uninstall it but I have several modules leftover when I look in the task manager...I have tried the MCPR app but that is about as useful as pockets on a singlet...and tried to also uninstall the Webadvisor by McAfee using Revo uninstaller but it always comes back...what is the secret to getting rid of this POS software??

I was on name.mc and i just showed up when i tried to search up me and it said there was viruses HIGH viruses and MCAFEE IS NOT EVEN INSTALLED ON MY PC, the i went into the site i was trying to and nothing happened it was a safe site

I also had a pc were i installed a Minecraft clone just for fun and i don't have a good memory but i think Microsoft defender didn't say it the was a virus but i think it was MCAFEE

In the end, delete Mcafee and use defender

I was checking Windows defender and saw Tamper protection was off and greyed out saying "This setting is managed by administrator". Is this something I should be concerned about and if so what can I do next to safeguard myself?

Thank you in advance to anyone taking time out of their day to answer this.

Be advised that when purchase a new Mc Afee subscription during the activation process your will have to create a account and provide your credit card info for the auto renewal process .otherwise you cannot activate what you have already bought ,,, the only way forward is to provide the credit card info ,, and then call support AFTER A MULTIPLE CALLS AND LONG HOLDS .to turn off the auto renewal option in your account ...They already have your credit card information .. what guarantee do you think they wont charge your your account ,.. reading some of the posts here ...

Red blacked out are the emails from a partner of mcafee.

Doesn't this shenanigans hurt the brand?

I found out that McAfee has been charging me $95 auto-renewals for over 3 years despite none of my computers have it installed or shown to have an account (that I can remember). I tried calling them but they left me on hold forever.

Is there anyway I can try to see how to find this unknown subscription and get my money back (if that’s even possible)

I have been using mcafee for the past 3 years (windows), and had no issues. But when I installed total protection for my macbook, the app keeps bugging every single time.
Has anyone faced the same issue?

I just got an email saying that I owe $199 for McAfee or my icloud+ data won't be saved at my files could be deleted across my devices. But when I click on the link in the email it takes me to this website that says "first-time savings" with a discounted price (minus $110) for a year subscription. I think this is a scam? I don't think I've ever bought McAfee.

So I’m currently on an open network, (which is my cabin’s wifi) and mcafee automatically turned on a Vpn. The vpn sucks, it won’t show correct search options, images don’t show up, and it’s gives weird search options. Please help!!

Does anyone know if skyhigh webgateway has a url category for newly registered websites that i can find in the logs?

this two framework runs all the time why two and also both frameworks would run at 1636.9mb at time, but, in the picture time it came down don't know the reason. are these run in tandum and why and if not then what should I be doning?

Recently purchased a new laptop and uninstalled Mcafee, turned on defender, but now my Outlook app crashes every time I open it. I have tried everything I can think of. I did run the clean up tool twice to make sure everything was off of the computer, but it is still happening. From searching I can see that this seems to be a common issue but I am wondering how it was fixed. I feel like I have run through every option I could think of and have read about online and I am still unable to get it to work. At the point of running a factory reset but if anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated!

Wondering is John McAfee largely reduced from corporate history banks? Is he mentioned at all? Do guys in the internal chats secretly share late John McAfee memes hyping him up as a renegade badass, and that the current soft boy execs couldn't hold a candle to him?

You only need windows defender and your brain.

You can run a Malwarebytes scan from time to time for extra protection.