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How to remove McAfee from the phone

hym
Visitor

How to remove McAfee from the phone

Guys, how can i remove the mcafee antivirus app from the phone? It comes preinstalled and there is no option to remove it in the App settings page. As it is a trialware and will expire after 6 months, I want to remove it.

Similarly, any way to remove chinese keyboard too? It occupies 16mb space (i guess) and I am not going to ever use it. 

Which other extra Sony apps can be removed/disabled from the phone?

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hym
Visitor

Got the info to remove McAfee from here: http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?lc=1033&id=TS101143

Please help with other remaining questions. 

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Uliwooly
Expert

some firmware variants do allow you to remove it, but if you do a factory reset the app will be restore, you can root your phone then remove it or you could just disable the app 

settings > apps > all > mcaffee > disable 

you could disable it or you could root your phone and uninstall it

keep in mind that removing preloaded apps could create issues.