McAfee, one of the best antivirus software companies, offers a paid program that keeps your laptop/computer safe from various Trojans, virus, and malware infections. However, this program may create various problems while updating or installing other programs in your computer. McAfee starts behaving oddly while virus removal and this causes your computer to become unstable. Henceforth, it often becomes a necessity to disable McAfee Antivirus in Windows 8 to make your computer work properly again.Like.
The process you followed only removes the agent, so it is no longer centrally controlled, you cannot any longer remove the product form the EPO central console. You can do this manually using add/remove programs and remove all other McAfee products, though I did provide you a much quicker way which for whatever reason you are deciding not to use. Aug 05, 2014 Forcefully remove McAfee Agent (McAfee Agent cannot be removed while it is in managed mode).
McAfee Agent does not remove through AddRemove ProgramsEnvironmentThe following message displays when select Remove for the McAfee Agent through Add Remove Programs on client computers:McAfee Agent cannot be removed because other products are still using it.This message also occurs when there are not additional products installed on the client computer.ProblemSelecting Remove for the McAfee Agent through Add Remove Programs does not work.SolutionThis message will display as long as the agent is in Managed Mode, or being managed by the ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) server. This is irrespective of any additional point products being installed.
This is 'as designed' to prevent the instance where removing a point product also removes the agent from the client computer, leaving it unmanaged by the ePO server.The computer must be removed from Managed Mode, before this option is functional.To take the computer out of Managed Mode, run the following command on the client computer, while logged on as an Administrator:frminst.exe /remove=agentThis removes the computer from Managed Mode, and the McAfee Framework Service can now be removed through Add Remove Programs.