How do I clean up all the viruses and popups with McAfee? Removing or cleaning viruses and malware from your system has never been easier. With McAfee VirusScan, you can easily remove malicious files and viruses from your computer at the click of a button. The McAfee anti-virus software will take care of everything while you may take a break and resume your daily work routine.
In many cases, the dormant virus lies inside the program that has been installed. However, the virus is yet to execute its malicious codes and inject them into your operating system. In such best-case scenarios, you should feel lucky because the solution to remove the virus is a simple uninstallation of the program from your computer. However, if there are persistent indications that a virus has been injected on your system, you should go for a deeper clean-up process. An example of such an indication is repetitive popups or abnormal behaviors after every boot-up of the operating system.
To clean up all the viruses and popups with McAfee antivirus, please follow the steps below.
How to perform a deep clean-up of the system and remove viruses with McAfee
To perform a deep clean-up, it is always recommended to boot the operating system in Safe Mode. Safe Mode loads only the essential components and applications within the Windows OS and ensures that there are no third-party apps that might block the proper execution of the commands from the installed anti-virus program.
To start your OS in Safe Mode, follow the steps below:
- Click on the Windows button and click on
- Navigate to Update & Security and select
- Under Advanced Startup, select Restart Now. When your system restarts, a new screen will display.
- Choose Troubleshoot from the options.
- Now visit Advanced options and select Startup Settings.
- Finally, select Enable Safe Mode. Now, your Windows OS is ready to launch in Safe Mode to prevent the loading of non-essential or third-party applications. This will enable a safe and convenient environment for McAfee antivirus program to carry out its processes.
Scanning your computer for viruses with McAfee antivirus
- Ensure that your McAfee antivirus is up to date. Right-click on the M-Shield icon on the taskbar and select Check for Updates.
- When the update completes, start the scanning process by right-clicking on the McAfee icon and selecting Scan.
- You will be presented with three types of scanning processes:
- Full Scan- It scans the entire system for viruses and malware.
- Quick Scan- It scans only the vulnerable areas within certain important folders of your operating system and drives. These folders are generally more prone to virus infections than the other folders.
- Custom Scan- You may select your desired folders for virus scanning.
Select the option that suits your purpose the most. We will highly recommend doing the full scan on your system at least once a week.
- Now the scan will initiate. Let the scan process complete.
- Once the scan completes, it will display the full details of the scan. You may click on View Results to view the details of the scan process and take actions on the infected files.
- After the virus scan is complete, please make sure to restart your system.
This will clean up all the viruses and popups from your Windows-based operating system.
Scanning your computer for viruses (for Mac devices)
- Open McAfee Security.
- Click on Mac Security. Then select Run a Scan.
- Select the type of scan you wish to run. There are three types of scan processes:
- Full Scan- It scans the entire system for viruses and malware.
- Quick Scan- It scans only the vulnerable areas within certain important folders of your operating system and drives. These folders are generally more prone to virus infections than the other folders.
- Custom Scan- You may select your desired folders for virus scanning.
- After choosing the desired scan process, click on Scan.
- Please wait while the scanning process completes. After it completes, you will be presented with the scan details page. To view the detailed results, you may click on View Results.
- Please restart your system after all the above steps are complete.
If you follow the steps carefully, the McAfee antivirus software will successfully clean up all the viruses and popups from your system. If it fails to remove an infected file or detects the file to be quite important, the program may put that file in quarantine so that it does not affect your system performance. You may view this information in the View Results page after the scan is complete.
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