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Branding sucks.

McAfee formerly used the name “Network Associates”. So many of it’s files were positioned in %ProgramFiles%\Network Associates and %AllUsersProfile%\Network Associates.

At some time, McAfee started to rebrand it’s program path. Program upgrades do not change the path, but new installations do. This means that you’ll have a nice mixup of paths if you have machines installed from different sources. The new pathnames use McAfee instead of Network Associates.

IBM has the same problems – they currently have suite of programs called “iSeries Access”, which gets installed to %ProgramFiles%\IBM\Client Access (which is the former name of the suite). But as the program should be called “System i Access” by now (or “i5/OS Access”), and the next rebranding will probably be coming up.