Help! McAfee Clean Sweep
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Help! McAfee Clean Sweep
I just renewed my McAfee Security System. They threw in this McAfee Clean Sweep program, which wipes out your Internet History everytime you close your browser. Well, I like being able to just go to my favorite sites and not have to log in everytime, so I Un-installed it. Only I still have to log into my site Can someone help me? Thanks!
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Once you have cleared that info you have to log back in to all those sites once and then ask it to remeber you, and then you should be good. But once you have cleared that info, its pretty much done. Is that what you mean by you have to log into your site? Each site you have saved in your favirotes, your user name and password is gone?
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O Town wrote:Once you have cleared that info you have to log back in to all those sites once and then ask it to remeber you, and then you should be good. But once you have cleared that info, its pretty much done. Is that what you mean by you have to log into your site? Each site you have saved in your favirotes, your user name and password is gone?
Exact right Kel! And I have done that (re-logging into the sites). I have restarted my computer and everything

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Hmmm, once you go back and re log in does it ask to save that info? It should. And most sites like S2K has a box to check that says remeber me each time I come back. Because I clean mine out on purpose about once a week and have to go through this once a week. I am not sure why it is not saving your history. Not familiar with McAfee Security either, but if you have uninstalled it it should not be affecting it. You could go into your internet options and check a few things. Go into tools>internet options> and then go to temporary internet files and hit settings. Under "check for newer versions of stored pages" the 'automatically' should be checked. Maybe that program reset some of your settings. Check that and make sure 'automatically' is checked.
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sunny wrote:Kel, I've tried ALL of that. I have gone in and added my "allowed sites" to my browser and my Security Center. STILL won't work. Maybe I should uninstall McAfee completely and re-install it?
I would do that, though it won't bring back your internet pages.
I would think that you would have the ability to say that you don't want to install "Clean Sweep" when you re-install McAfee. There should be a "custom install" selection there.
Do you have an instruction manual or perhaps you could go to their website and look up the "Clean Sweep" function to give you more info.
Good Luck!
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Removing your history is removing your history. Checking remember me will not help. Basically you need to right click the Mcafee icon in the taskbar, got to QuickClean/Disable and you should be ok.
Here is the manual for future reference:
http://download.mcafee.com/products/man ... e_2006.pdf
Edit: I am assuming you are using Quick Clean as I couldn't find a Mcafee Clean Sweep program. If it is Clean Sweep let me know and I will dig deeper.
Here is the manual for future reference:
http://download.mcafee.com/products/man ... e_2006.pdf
Edit: I am assuming you are using Quick Clean as I couldn't find a Mcafee Clean Sweep program. If it is Clean Sweep let me know and I will dig deeper.
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nholley wrote:Removing your history is removing your history. Checking remember me will not help. Basically you need to right click the Mcafee icon in the taskbar, got to QuickClean/Disable and you should be ok.
Here is the manual for future reference:
http://download.mcafee.com/products/man ... e_2006.pdf
Edit: I am assuming you are using Quick Clean as I couldn't find a Mcafee Clean Sweep program. If it is Clean Sweep let me know and I will dig deeper.
It's McAfee Clean Sweep - it was thrown in "free" for renewing my subscription. I don't know what has happened. I downloaded if Friday evening, didn't like it so I removed it yesterday.
Thanks everyone for the tips. I am trying all that you guys are suggesting.
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