That would be great if the McAffee support people explain how to get it out of your system. But alas McAffee like Norton is very intrusive. Yes it hides files in the registry and elsewhere. It's the way it was designed.
To even use the uninstaller you you must know your administrative login name and password. The poster stated they did not remember either. Again in such cases McAffee will not assist due to the fact the computer is stolen and the thief is trying to access the system and the security suite is doing its job.
on my computers I start passwords from BIOS through login to the OS and passwords on any other programs that allow it.
Years ago I had a thief who couldn't cut my laptop security cable attached to a desk with a round steel insert. The thief used a hammer of some sort to smash my desk to get the laptop. But it did the thief no good. They could not login nor could they do a system wipe because the bios was password locked.
