pjobson

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

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.

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.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

mikedamm

rm -f /Library/LaunchAgents/com.mcafee.menulet.plist
rm -f /Library/LaunchAgents/com.mcafee.reporter.plist
rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mcafee.ssm.Eupdate.plist
rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mcafee.ssm.ScanFactory.plist
rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mcafee.virusscan.fmpd.plist
rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/McAfee
rm -rf /usr/local/McAfee
shutdown -r now

pdostal

alias airport='sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport'

chilcote

General links mentioned in the talk:

Der Flounder
Virtually Ghetto
Installing OSX in Fusion
Create VMware OSX Install DMG
VMware Volume Deployment Package
Setting the license key from the command line
Using vmrun

poundbangbash

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>PayloadContent</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>PayloadContent</key>
			<dict>
				<key>com.microsoft.Excel</key>

chilcote

#!/usr/bin/env python

'''
download macsysadmin videos

requires:

pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4
'''

pythoninthegrass

#!/usr/bin/env bash


# See McAfee KBs:
# https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB88461 # Remove ENS for Mac (ENSM)
# https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB61125 # Remove McAfee Agent

# Exit upon failed command
# set -e

mhofman

#!/bin/sh

# Usage: get_lutron_cert.sh [bridge_ip] | tee cert.pem

function error() {
  echo "Error: $1" >&2
  exit 1
}

login_server="device-login.lutron.com"

talkingmoose

#!/bin/bash
 
# server connection information
URL="https://talkingmoose.jamfcloud.com"
userName="api-editor"
password="P@55w0rd"
command="UpdateInventory"
 
# XML data to upload
THExml="<mobile_device_command>

talkingmoose

#!/bin/bash

<<ABOUT_THIS_SCRIPT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Written by:William Smith
	Professional Services Engineer
	Jamf
	bill@talkingmoose.net
	https://gist.github.com/2cf20236e665fcd7ec41311d50c89c0e