McAfee Internet protection

I recently bought McAfee internet protection shortly after the purchase of my laptop. When I installed it, the free trial of McAfee is always enabled. Now, it is advising me that my free trial has expired and I need to renew my subscription, but I have already installed and activated my purchased protection - or at least I thought. Do I have to re - install that I bought or is there a way I can activate it now? I'm so confused! I can't find the version purchased on my computer anywhere and the software is at home and I'm on vacation for a few days. Please help if you have any information or ideas - it would be much appreciated. Thank you!!

http://www.McAfee.com/us/support/index.html

You will need to contact the McAfee Support on this subject.

http://service.McAfee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?ID=TS100507

Link above has the McAfee removal Tool.

But, you need McAfee as to what it will remove: choice of removal of trial or all v.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

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