How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mostly cites it as a notorious piece of McAfee lore, usually jokingly, whenever John McAfee or antivirus uninstallation comes up.
What it is
A bizarre, tongue-in-cheek video in which John McAfee himself supposedly shows how to uninstall McAfee antivirus. It is known for its NSFW sex and drug references.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2013 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends tachyonbeam · 2021-01 · on “The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)”
I loved McAfee's video on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus: [this video] At least he's got a sense of humor.
Recommends specproc · 2024-09 · on “Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host”
For anyone in the thread that's not seen "How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus" by John McAfee, you are very, very welcome [0]. Content warning: it was made in his Alpha-PHP era, and contains a lot of sex and drug references. It's mostly sex and drugs IIRC. [0] [this video]
Cites rubatuga · 2018-09 · on “Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information”
I’ve seen this happen with YouTube, specifically this video: [this video] I had watched it many many years ago, and I suddenly remembered about it while at my friends apartment, (which is in the same building). Now I searched it up on my friends computer which was logged into his gmail account. We watched it and laughed. However, an hour later, I was on my iPhone at home when it appeared in my related videos. [LINK] I refreshed and it was gone...
Cites austhrow743 · 2020-09 · on “McAfee S-1”
He already has the top YouTube result for "how to uninstall McAfee" [this video] If he's already doing something, and like you say its a certainty that he'll continue, is that really a risk?
Cites 2cb · 2021-02 · on “New malware found on 30k Macs has security pros stumped”
This attitude from users is a very real problem, but I'd argue it's platform agnostic. For instance there were headlines around the internet not too long ago stating Android is more secure than iOS based on claims made by Zerodium. Any Android user who read that may well have the same attitude you've described from iOS users. And it's potentially far more dangerous on Android because it allows you to sideload apps. You can even extend it to Windows. Your average user will buy a laptop preinstalled with McAfee [1] and think "no need to worry about viruses now because I've got an antivirus." Don't get me wrong I agree it's perfectly reasonable to be critical of Apple when it's warranted, but w
Cites gus_massa · 2024-06 · on “Biden puts a bullet in Kaspersky: Sales, updates to be banned in America”
A lot of times, the antivirus is part of the crapware that comes with a new windows computer. After a month of free tryal, it start shiwing scarry reminders. And as John reminds us, it may be difficult to uninstall [this video]