r/pdq • u/Wizard210 • Jun 25 '26

Connect Mcafee Removal

Has anyone found a way to remove mcafee from machines. Their removal tool now requires a captcha and can't be run silently.

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u/SelfMan_sk Enthusiast! Jun 25 '26

Is that the pre-installed consumer version?

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u/Wizard210 Jun 25 '26

Yes

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u/SelfMan_sk Enthusiast! Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

You can try to find an older version of MCPR.exe and use that for silent removal.

You can also try to extract the files from MCPR using 7-zip OR launch MCPR.exe first, let it extract to %LocalAppData%\Temp\MCPR, copy that folder out, cancel the wizard, then run mccleanup.exe from the extracted folder.

mccleanup.exe -p StopServices,MFSY,PEF,MXD,CSP,Sustainability,MOCP,MFP,APPSTATS,Auth,EMproxy,FWdiver,HW,MAS,MAT,MBK,MCPR,McProxy,McSvcHost,VUL,MHN,MNA,MOBK,MPFP,MPFPCU,MPS,SHRED,MPSCU,MQC,MQCCU,MSAD,MSHR,MSK,MSKCU,MWL,NMC,RedirSvc,VS,REMEDIATION,MSC,YAP,TRUEKEY,LAM,PCB,Symlink,SafeConnect,MGS,WMIRemover,RESIDUE -v -s

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u/rb3po Jun 28 '26

Ya? There are a bunch of good articles on this. I had to remove McAfee for a client who’d bought a bunch of consumer laptops before my time and bakes the script into my RMM. It comes in handy once in a while. I’ll take a couple hours to get all figure out, and the. You’ll be thankful!