rm -rf /Users/pjobson/Library/Caches//Generated/ Had to manually remove this one as it is a directory and I didn't want to -rf in the instructions. Users/pjobson/Library/Caches//SDMHelpData/Other/English/HelpSDMIndexFile/ On my system the following were found: /Library/LaunchAgents/ Re-running the commands made it go away again.Īdded a find and delete.
Per rm /Applications/Utilities/McAfee\ ePO\ Remote\ Provisioning\ Tool.app/ I have some theories involving setting up non-domain level users on the system, but I don't have a lab to do the testing and I primarily use Linux now, so I don't care enough try it. If you are on a corporate network screwing around with policies may result in a strong lecture or even cost you your job, depending on your field. This is outside of the scope of this document.
cd /usr/localīlock Corp asked how to block corp policies from re-installing McAfee. Per you can fix mcafee's runaway process by modifying some permissions. sudo find / -type f -name '*mcafee*' -print Per consider finding just *mcafee* instead of com.mcafee* for a more complete list. You can cat /tmp/to-delete to show what you should delete. sudo find / -name "*MobileBackup*" -prune -or -name "com.mcafee*" -print > /tmp/to-delete Per if you are using TimeMachine, you'll want to ignore those back-ups. You may not have access to all of those files, you can sudo find. You can search and destroy mcafee stuff with this: find / -name "com.mcafee*" -exec rm \ -print FilesĪside from the services, there will be a shit-ton of files left on the file system. You can use similar steps as above to stop and remove them. Launchctl remove Īs this document may be out of date by the time you find it, try these to find more mcafee garbage. Thanks for finding some more which I missed. There are both local and root level launchd services. Web Control Module sudo /usr/local/McAfee/uninstall WebControl Threat Prevention Module sudo /usr/local/McAfee/uninstall ThreatPreventionįirewall Module sudo /usr/local/McAfee/uninstall Firewall Per try: sudo /usr/local/McAfee/uninstall EPMĪll Modules sudo /usr/local/McAfee/uninstall EPM Per try: /Library/McAfee/agent/scripts/uninstall.sh There's an uninstaller you can download, it never worked properly for me. You can attempt to uninstall, but it may not work randomly. I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.
There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan. There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system. Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.