How to remove McAfee icon from menu bar without uninstalling?

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How to remove McAfee icon from menu bar without uninstalling?

Sorry if this has been addressed before, but I can't seem to find it. I recently got a new Macbook Pro from my school and I'm a bit of a neat freak when it comes to how things are organized on my computer haha. There is a McAfee icon on the menu bar and I can't seem to get it to go away. I've looked for a solution but all the questions I saw were about if you had uninstalled McAfee. I don't want to uninstall the program, as the school requires the computers to have it. So I was just wondering if there was anyway to just get the icon to not appear in the menu bar?

Thank you!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Aug 9, 2015 7:12 PM

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Lexiepex

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Mar 5, 2017 1:40 AM in response to Jalad

Nobody here is eager to propose to uninstall AntiVirus apps, because the OP is not willing to do that.

Sometimes there is a setting in the app.

Normally (I don't know if this also works in this case) you remove an icon from the menubar by doing this: Quit the app, then while holding the CMD key drag the icon off the menubar hold it for half a second then let go and it it pufff away.

It may come back after starting the app.

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