Hi Anwar,

There are some good tools in CD2 of SEP which will help you remove McAfee just before installing SEP. Although you can remove McAfee from EPolicy console as well but in that case you put your clients in risk of being infected.

By the way if you choose first method you have to take care of McAfee annoying Framework service also, there are some batch files (which you can find by searching google) that will help removing framework service.

First of all, i am not against your decision or anything but .. you need to compare apple with apple.

install the latest Virus scan if i remember it was 8.5 with antispyware with latest patches and then try compare with SEP with latest patches.

i know antivirus companies will always struggle to fix virus problem and Symantec n Mcafee are both alike.. they are always run behind the virus creaters....

i have used McAfee in my previous company and now using SEP in new company and i would say...... mcafee solution is still wayy too ahead of SEP management solution, and for the annoying little framework service .. i would say its wayy too better then SEP all together.. (i know its a another debate)  but at least if you want to uninstall Mcafee from your system you just need to tell the agent to uninstall all the softwares and unisntall your self from the management console ONLY...

and for the service part you can either apply Group Policy or use the new version to disable that no one can stop the service... and for the best practice of security NO one is supposed to be admin of their machines..

again i am not offending anyone... but still there is so many things symantec needed to do and they are doing it but they are bit too late.. like Novell adopted TCPIP but too late even though they had good things under thier seleaves :)