Delete .mac network icon

Can anyone tell me how to delete the .mac network icon from my System Preferences? I threw away the software years ago, and got rid of a lot of other gunk coming from it this week, now I get an annoying message instead of the Screen Savers I want to see. Yes, it's in my Screen Saver list.

The message is: Please select one or more subscriptions by clicking Configure in the Desktop & Screen Saver preference panel.
Sounds like that is coming from the screen saver (probably called .Mac) that uses shared pictures in your .Mac online storage. It is not directly related to any "network option."
If you choose to use a random screen saver, when the .Mac screen saver is selected at random, it wants to know what .Mac account to use for the pictures it displays. You can either not use the random choice, and pick a screen saver that is not the .Mac screen saver. Or you can remove the .Mac screen saver from the list of choices. Since it's just a screen saver module, there should not be any problem with removing it.
It should be at
<startup volume>/System/Library/Screen Savers/
The problem here is that files with names that begin with a period (.) are invisible in Finder, and this module is named .Mac.slideSaver. So it is invisible to Finder.
You can use Unix command in Terminal to find and move it, or you can download this handy utility called TinkerTool
http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html
It has an option to +Show hidden and system files+ on its Finder tab. Select that option, then click the button at the bottom of the TinkerTool window to +Relaunch Finder+.
Now, if you go to
<startup volume>/System/Library/Screen Savers/
and you should see a file called .Mac.slideSaver. Move it to the Desktop or another location. Now, when you use the System Preferences pane for screen savers, the .Mac screen saver should not be on the list. If you ever want it back, you can move that file back.
Don't forget to change the +Show hidden and system files+ setting in TinkerTool back to OFF.

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