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09-07-2004, 10:29 PM
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Friends don't let friends use McAfee...
I'm just speechless...Just when you think McAfee hit rock bottom, here they are.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09...e_false_alarm/ kram
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09-07-2004, 10:50 PM
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WOW! That is crazy.... I wonder if they fired the guy who made that mistake...probably not...
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09-07-2004, 11:00 PM
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And they say Norton is bad...........
This just gave me another reason why I shouldn't install McAfee, even though I have about 3 copies of it on my motherboard CD's.
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09-07-2004, 11:09 PM
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wayyyyy kool...
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09-07-2004, 11:14 PM
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amazing.
Don't those laddies at McAfee know that only big boys should be distributing AV software? 
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09-08-2004, 12:25 AM
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AVG, NOD32, and HouseCall anyday. Norton and McAfee are both trash in my book.
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09-08-2004, 03:48 AM
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i cant agree on that.. NAV 2003 is my fav.. does its job well.. altho abit of a system hog..
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09-08-2004, 06:50 AM
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Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. What's bad here, is how McAfee is reacting to their mistake. I haven't used McAfee since my DOS days when I discovered F-Prot
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09-08-2004, 11:18 AM
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I guess the question is why does anyone need a program to connect to their ISP and that disconnects them when the program is uninstalled. Even MS Internet Connection Wizard doesn't disconnect you if you don't use it.
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09-08-2004, 11:29 AM
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As an interesting postscript to that article, you can see the SLEW of mistakes McAfee has made regarding freezing computers with updates, rendering NT worthless with updates, etc in the "related articles" links at the bottom of that page. I doubt this is the rock bottom for that company. What trash.
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09-08-2004, 07:35 PM
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I can stand by Norton...I just can't see McAfee on any computer I work on...it's just that bad. Pretty soon, it's going to be a common excuse for missing homework..."teacher, my McAfee AV ate my homework"
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09-09-2004, 01:58 AM
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09-09-2004, 04:33 AM
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What really "bugs" me about this whole thing is that Macaffee has a bad rep and uninformed people are still using it. I just uninstalled it off my aunts computer. I use grisoft's avg and I think its better than norton. There are so many ways to potect yourself these days.
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09-09-2004, 04:45 PM
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09-09-2004, 09:20 PM
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I've run Grisoft's free version of AVG for years and never had a problem.
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09-09-2004, 11:00 PM
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AVG pops up automatically when it finds a virus/trojan, even tho I didn't tell it to scan. It has some auto aware thing that can find virii w/o scanning. McAfee never did that with me.
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