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Hi i insttalled the free trial 3O days MacScan on OsX10.5 is it normal that for full scaning it takes so long time more even than one day?! on the other hand this application hasn't any uninstaller on image disc ,so how can i uninstal it from my hard?

Hi i insttalled the free trial 3O days MacScan on OsX10.5 is it normal that for full scaning it takes so long time more even than one day?! on the other hand this application hasn't any uninstaller on image disc ,so how can i uninstal it from my hard?Thanks

iMac, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Feb 9, 2013 2:52 AM

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Posted on Feb 9, 2013 4:55 AM

Depends how fast the computer is. But, yes, it takes forever. And besides it's worthless junk. (If you want any A-V, get Sophos instead.) In order to uninstall, here's where all the files are. Basically just drag the app, underlined below, to the Trash. Do the others if you want, but they aren't very important.


/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/MacScan Statistics.plist


/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.securemac.MacScan.plist


/Applications/MacScan 2/MacScan.app

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Feb 9, 2013 4:55 AM in response to mazdagod

Depends how fast the computer is. But, yes, it takes forever. And besides it's worthless junk. (If you want any A-V, get Sophos instead.) In order to uninstall, here's where all the files are. Basically just drag the app, underlined below, to the Trash. Do the others if you want, but they aren't very important.


/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/MacScan Statistics.plist


/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.securemac.MacScan.plist


/Applications/MacScan 2/MacScan.app

Feb 9, 2013 5:50 AM in response to mazdagod

Get rid of the tracking cookies. They are used to profile and track your browsing history. While they are privacy invading, by calling them spyware, MacScan is being a little dramatic in trying to sell you its crap. And in the future, for whatever browser you use, don't allow third-party cookies.


To prevent tracking, get Ghostery. In addition to having Ghostery and forbidding third-party cookies, I clear out all cookies from one browsing session to another. If you always do that, you won't have any tracking cookies to worry about, so you won't need MacScan to find them for you. Btw, MacScan finds the tracking cookies in the first few minutes of scanning; if you want to use it for that, then that's all the time you need to run it for. But, as I said, you won't have any tracking cookies around if you just remove all cookies and don't allow third-party cookies. As soon as you visit a site that needs them, you'll just get new ones. No problem.


Read all about cookies here.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Feb 9, 2013 10:36 AM in response to WZZZ

Salut wzzz again about uninstalling question i didn't find in my library/Preferences;/Library/Preferences/MacScan Statistics.plist and /Library/Preferences/com.securemac.MacScan.plist,but in my application folders i saw macscan2 folder ,so i darg all this folder's content into the trach. About the username it seems that isn't absolutely necessary,isn't it?

Feb 9, 2013 1:47 PM in response to WZZZ

Exactly as you mentioned some Macscan user also wanted to uninstall that and

suggested the following should be deleted:

  • (app) /Applications/MacScan 2/MacScan.app
  • (pref) ~/Library/Preferences/com.securemac.plist
  • (pref) ~/Library/Preferences/MacScan Statistics.plist
  • (receipt) /Library/Receipts/MacScan Installer.pkg
  • (installer) ~/Downloads/MacScan Trial
  • (folder) /Applications/MacScan 2
  • but where these could be find ?! i'm wondering why these are not found in my Library/preference,and the only place is find something about MacScan is in the download folder;Macscaninstaler.dgm,and in application folder.Dose it means that it was not installed completly or correctly?

Feb 9, 2013 3:10 PM in response to mazdagod

I think you're making a big deal out of something that isn't worth it. MacScan, at least the demo, and probably the paid version as well, doesn't install anything you need to be very concerned about. Just trash the app and get the files you can, and that's that. Anything you happen to leave around won't take up any space and will just sit there doing nothing.

Hi i insttalled the free trial 3O days MacScan on OsX10.5 is it normal that for full scaning it takes so long time more even than one day?! on the other hand this application hasn't any uninstaller on image disc ,so how can i uninstal it from my hard?

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