# Getting rid of McAfee? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 29, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-mcafee/854686 "2020-05-29T17:15:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-mcafee/854686/21 "2020-06-02T14:17:49Z")
At one point, I was using either McAfee or Norton for antivirus software. But when it came to renew the license, I found that the renewal cost was greater than the cost of a brand-new subscription. So I would use the McAfee or Norton removal tool, uninstall the whole thing cleanly and then install a newly purchased license. ---
**Author:** ![road\_lobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@road\_lobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/road_lobo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-mcafee/854686/22 "2020-06-03T10:12:08Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > If someone can tell me how to get my favorite text editor (which I have been using for 35 years) to run under Linux, I would gladly change. But it doesn’t, even under a windows simulation program I tried. What’s this text editor? Wordstar? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-mcafee/854686/23 "2020-06-03T10:58:37Z")
In my response I assumed we were talking about XEDIT, which, while there is no (easy) way to run such original IBM software under Linux, has a few clones which will run on various personal computer operating systems. It’s not a Windows original by any means (as you might expect from an editor released in 1980). I apologize if I mixed up people’s favorite editors… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-mcafee/854686.md?page=1)