Oh, Diane, thank you. Your words are balm, now that Wayne has ceased to
trust me...
The miserable McAfee came installed on my computer and it worked sort of
OK. At least it wasn't bugging me. I was only using the AV and the
firewall. Now I realize I wasn't really getting the AV updates, but I
didn't know that at the time. Then it stopped running, sending me messages
that the Privacy module was corrupt. But I wasn't using the Privacy module.
Suddenly I was having trouble with e-mail, and eventually I realized that
my personality settings in Eudora were mysteriously changing, and then not
changing back, so the server didn't recognize them.
Eudora goddess Katrina Knight told me that this is an anti-virus issue, and
that when it's working the properly the settings get changed on the fly and
then (should be) changed back once the scanning is finished. (That's how I
understood her; I hope I'm representing it right.) McAfee problem again. I
tried to uninstall the corrupt privacy module. It wouldn't let me do that
until I disabled it. But I couldn't disable it, because it wasn't
installed. So I tried to install it prior to uninstalling it, but it
wouldn't do that, either. It kept saying I had to uninstall the existing
version first. The group uninstaller won't work until it thinks that all
the individual modules are uninstalled. So I couldn't reinstall it and I
couldn't uninstall it. I had to take it out of the registry by hand.
Then it took me at least four attempts to reinstall it from scratch. It has
to call home during the install, and THAT was when I had the genius insight
that it was getting hung up with Firefox. I set IE as the defualt and after
a couple more tries I got it to start. But it wouldn't let me leave out the
privacy and anti-spam components, which I didn't want and still haven't
found a way to take off safely.
So now when the computer boots I have to sign in to the @_#(*)$&@ privacy
module, and I have to set IE as the browser default to update, and even
then some of the updates stop in midstream.
I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, but I'm afraid to try to uninstall it
again. At least not till I know what put in its place. Even though I have
another nine months of a subscription.
(PS My very first version of McAfee was on my very first Windows computer,
a long time ago, and the first thing it did was screw up FreeCell. A
well-known bug, as I recall, but it occluded the taskbar.)
At 09:16 AM 2006-05-27, you wrote:
I do, not because i tried, but because i know how awful McAfee is when
preinstalled. You have no protection and no updated defs until you register
for an account with them and if you had a previous free trial included with
another oem box, you need a new email address to register the new account -
it doesn't use a 'machine id' to know it's a new machine. Uninstalling it
takes at least 3 reboots too... they really suck.
OEM norton works out of the box for 90 days and gets updated defs- no
invasive registration. It just works. Even after a system restore...
On 5/27/06, Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 08:15 AM 5/27/2006, Eve Golden typed:
> because McAfee can't (do you believe this) use firefox.
No, I don't believe this.
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