Virex 7.2.1

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Virex 7.2.1

I am running Virex 7.2.1 and would like to uninstall it. All the links to the instructions for uninstalling Virex 7.2.x are more than 2 years old and no longer valid.
Does anyone know how I can uninstall Virex 7.2.1?

Powerbook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 23, 2007 7:58 AM

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TildeBee

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Oct 23, 2007 9:15 AM in response to sthoms

Does this help?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301291
(The Uninstaller on this links appears to work . . .)

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sthoms Author

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Oct 23, 2007 12:30 PM in response to TildeBee

No the link for the directions to uninstall Virex 7.2 takes me to the mcafee support page. When I tried to get their help, mcafee's response was that they did not support MAC OSX for Virex. Only VirusScan. The other link does do something but it does not uninstall Virex 7.2.

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A A P L

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Oct 23, 2007 1:07 PM in response to sthoms

Email me and I can send you a terminal script that does it.
I use it before installing SAV 10 on my new Macs...

Scott

ebayscott at mac dot com

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A A P L

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Oct 23, 2007 3:36 PM in response to A A P L

Glad it worked, and thanks for the greeny!

SB

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JASTEP

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Nov 6, 2007 4:50 PM in response to sthoms

Does anyone have the terminal script to get rid of Virex 7.2. It is not available online that I can find. I would appreciate the help

JIM

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sthoms Author

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Nov 6, 2007 5:25 PM in response to JASTEP

Email me and I will send you the terminal script that Scott sent me.

sthomsonline at mac dot com

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MyronC

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Nov 15, 2007 7:33 PM in response to sthoms

Hello,

Can I email you for the script as well?

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sthoms Author

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Nov 16, 2007 5:12 AM in response to MyronC

Sure.. I wish I could post this somewhere. I've gotten 6 emails for it. Apparently several people are looking to uninstall Virex 7.2

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Nov 16, 2007 6:33 PM in response to sthoms

i'd like a copy, too. why don't you put it up on a free file hosting service like rapidshare.com or something?

thanks in advance!

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sthoms Author

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Nov 17, 2007 4:53 AM in response to Marc Bejarano

I have placed the file out on rapidshare.com as suggested. Hope everyone enjoys.
http://rapidshare.com/files/70331346/Remove_Virex.dmg.html

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Answer 11

Dec 11, 2007 10:39 PM in response to sthoms

It seems pretty ignorant and pig headed of apple and mcaffee both to refuse to post such a small removal script somewhere accessible to us. The apple support pages point to nonexistent files on the mcaffee site and the mcaffee forums say to contact apple if you bought virex from apple.

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FlexHose

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Dec 15, 2007 3:09 PM in response to sthoms

Thanks!

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gurujay

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Dec 19, 2007 7:34 AM in response to sthoms

Please could you email me the script to get rid of virex7.2
Many thanks,
Jay

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gurujay

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Dec 19, 2007 7:37 AM in response to trainerguy

I couldn't agree with you more. I contacted McAfee and was given the run around to four different people -none told me that Virex was defunct. The last one told me peremptorily that Mc Afee no longer supported Virex. What re Apple and Mc Afee up to. Can't they get it together to help their customers?

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