How to Disable McAfee Antivirus on Windows

Computer Devices are developing more and more due to the technological advancement that has happened in the past two decades. These have made the device more user-friendly. It is very easy to use a computer if you simply know or learn some basics. Many users contribute to the development of this technology.
This has made a large number of people depend upon it for their daily works too. Many applications have been established to enhance this user experience. This dependence has made add up the impact of cyber-crimes, which has raised the demand for antivirus. But still, due to some issue, people want to disable McAfee Antivirus
How to Disable McAfee Antivirus
This includes disabling the scanning process on the antivirus and firewall protection. This leaves your computer free from the control of the antivirus. Any application can work freely in such an atmosphere. You can work on the websites you want. Also, the speed of the computer increases which has been decreased by the functioning of the antivirus to disable McAfee Antivirus.
For Mac
- On the Home Screen of your device, select ‘Finder’ Icon
- Choose your device name
- In here, select the following
- Applications
- McAfee
- ‘Settings’ icon
- Real-Time Scanning
- Disable the scanning process by selecting the blue color option, besides the title.
- Go to the Home page of the application
- Again, select ‘Settings’
- Select ‘Firewall’
- Disable it the way you disable the real-time scanning by selecting the blue color option
To enable it back, you will have to follow the above steps. The blue icon when you disabled had turned gray. Select it again. It will turn blue, which means that the feature is enabled.
For Android and IOS
This feature on disabling is not available for ‘Android’ as well as ‘IOS’. For this, you will have to uninstall the application and reinstall it. The Uninstalling process is similar to uninstalling any other application. For Android, you can do so by long-pressing the application and selecting the ‘Uninstall’ or ‘Delete’ option.
For IOS, do so by long-pressing the app and selecting the cross icon. You can reinstall them easily by searching for the app on PlayStore/AppStore and then selecting ‘Install’.
Disable McAfee Antivirus makes your device vulnerable, and thus any cyber threat can attack your device. So, make sure, you are not opening any suspicious website or installing such an application.
Always download only the applications you trust in, that too from the official website.
And even if the app is enabled, never click on anything that is suspicious, ever to check it. One click can provide cybercriminals permission to misuse your device by breaking all the security.