Windows Vista, installed McAfee AV 2012, will activate, McAfee said it's a windows problem

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit, running IE 8, had installed IE 9 but McAfee said they had problems under IE 9. Have executed APPREMOVER and cleaned all security software. Have installed McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2012, but cannot activate it?

Any reason, you must use McAfee? I bought three computers with McAfee already installed, and the first thing I do is get this crapware off my machine. I would never use the programs made by McAfee or Norton.
 
Norton and McAfee are the two least friendly Windows security and swine resource to start programs. My ISP offers the McAfee security suite for free and I refuse to use it.
 
I used to use Avast in conjunction with Windows Defender, (still a decent option), but since MSE became of age, I have used which. MSE is an anti-virus, Anti-Spyware and Anti-Malware program all in one. IMO, it is a program MS got it wrong. And all of these options are freeware.
 
If you choose to give it a try, download and save the MSE. Remove McAfee and install MSE.

Correction of tool McAfee Consumer Product Removal triple
http://service.McAfee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?LC=1033&ID=TS100507  

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