Stay away from McAfee

I have the option of downloading free McAfee internet security from my ISP,
so I did.

Right away I noticed a serious slow down, but I decided to give it some time
since it was FREE and comprehensive software.

All in all is wa OK, then came the latest update, that's when all hell broke
out.
-Anything Flash stopped working,
-the sidebar gadgets become distorted and unviewable,
-If I turned off UAC the whole system had a seizure
-With UAC on I couldn't actually do anything
-Control Panel took 10 seconds plus just to open up and twice that to populate
-And I couldn't even access the McAfee security center to adjust it

So, of course, I installed the thing. Too late, the damage was done and I
spent a day getting my system back to normal which required a System Restore
back to pre-McAfee and the reinstall of nearly all my drivers and 1/3 of my
software, which I could only do after I used HP's recovery to get the
computer 'back to factory' condition (this ended up erasing all personal
items, which I luckily had backed-up on DVD).

Norton IS 2007 that came as trail-ware with the system was slow, but at
least it was stable and intrusive.

I hate you McAfee!

McAfee and Norton are not compatible and cause many issues with Vista as it does with other OS's. Using something like Avast free will do a better job and is much less intrusive.

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"romanom" <romanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8F09D5B4-8690-405B-B013-D2BEB4C07199@microsoft.com...
>I have the option of downloading free McAfee internet security from my ISP,
> so I did.
>
> Right away I noticed a serious slow down, but I decided to give it some time
> since it was FREE and comprehensive software.
>
> All in all is wa OK, then came the latest update, that's when all hell broke
> out.
> -Anything Flash stopped working,
> -the sidebar gadgets become distorted and unviewable,
> -If I turned off UAC the whole system had a seizure
> -With UAC on I couldn't actually do anything
> -Control Panel took 10 seconds plus just to open up and twice that to populate
> -And I couldn't even access the McAfee security center to adjust it
>
> So, of course, I installed the thing. Too late, the damage was done and I
> spent a day getting my system back to normal which required a System Restore
> back to pre-McAfee and the reinstall of nearly all my drivers and 1/3 of my
> software, which I could only do after I used HP's recovery to get the
> computer 'back to factory' condition (this ended up erasing all personal
> items, which I luckily had backed-up on DVD).
>
> Norton IS 2007 that came as trail-ware with the system was slow, but at
> least it was stable and intrusive.
>
> I hate you McAfee!

kaspersky or nod32 work nicely on vista. check this blog about mcafee problem
on vista too http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=689&tag=nl.e539
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Both McAfee and Norton are totally compatible with Vista. The problem is
that they are resource hogs.

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Toronto, Canada
"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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McAfee and Norton are not compatible and cause many issues with Vista as it
does with other OS's. Using something like Avast free will do a better job
and is much less intrusive.

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"romanom" <romanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F09D5B4-8690-405B-B013-D2BEB4C07199@microsoft.com...
>I have the option of downloading free McAfee internet security from my ISP,
> so I did.
>
> Right away I noticed a serious slow down, but I decided to give it some
> time
> since it was FREE and comprehensive software.
>
> All in all is wa OK, then came the latest update, that's when all hell
> broke
> out.
> -Anything Flash stopped working,
> -the sidebar gadgets become distorted and unviewable,
> -If I turned off UAC the whole system had a seizure
> -With UAC on I couldn't actually do anything
> -Control Panel took 10 seconds plus just to open up and twice that to
> populate
> -And I couldn't even access the McAfee security center to adjust it
>
> So, of course, I installed the thing. Too late, the damage was done and I
> spent a day getting my system back to normal which required a System
> Restore
> back to pre-McAfee and the reinstall of nearly all my drivers and 1/3 of
> my
> software, which I could only do after I used HP's recovery to get the
> computer 'back to factory' condition (this ended up erasing all personal
> items, which I luckily had backed-up on DVD).
>
> Norton IS 2007 that came as trail-ware with the system was slow, but at
> least it was stable and intrusive.
>
> I hate you McAfee!

>
> Norton IS 2007 that came as trail-ware with the system was slow, but at
> least it was stable and intrusive.
>
> I hate you McAfee!


hmmm...."intrusive"? or unobtrusive? I find that it is the latter.

Dave

Peter Foldes wrote:
> McAfee and Norton are not compatible and cause many issues with Vista as it does with other OS's. Using something like Avast free will do a better job and is much less intrusive.
>

Please give me a couple of issues that NIS2007 causes WITH VISTA. I've
yet to have any problems with NIS2007, other than symantec tech support
has been unable to answer a question I have about some alerts.

Dave

Peter wrote:
> Both McAfee and Norton are totally compatible with Vista. The problem
> is that they are resource hogs.
>
I must be clueless---despite using NIS2007, my laptops run just fine.

Not as much with Vista but rather mostly with email clients. Some issues include not sending,not receiving ,duplicates,corruption of identity etc etc etc

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"David" <David@invalid.com> wrote in message news:Wa-dnWvbCvBWES7bnZ2dnUVZ_r_inZ2d@comcast.com...
> Peter Foldes wrote:
>> McAfee and Norton are not compatible and cause many issues with Vista as it does with other OS's. Using something like Avast free will do a better job and is much less intrusive.
>>
>
> Please give me a couple of issues that NIS2007 causes WITH VISTA. I've
> yet to have any problems with NIS2007, other than symantec tech support
> has been unable to answer a question I have about some alerts.
>
> Dave

I'm using McAfee and it works just fine. Some people have problems but
that's par for the course IMHO.

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Toronto, Canada
"David" <David@invalid.com> wrote in message
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>
>>
>> Norton IS 2007 that came as trail-ware with the system was slow, but at
>> least it was stable and intrusive.
>>
>> I hate you McAfee!
>
>
> hmmm...."intrusive"? or unobtrusive? I find that it is the latter.
>
> Dave

It is (McAfee) like a time bomb. It will eventually hit and show it's face. Always does

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"Peter" <ex_brit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:uhjV%23Ah1HHA.5172@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> I'm using McAfee and it works just fine. Some people have problems but
> that's par for the course IMHO.
>
> --
> Peter
> Toronto, Canada
> "David" <David@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:Wa-dnWjbCvDdES7bnZ2dnUVZ_r_inZ2d@comcast.com...
>>
>>>
>>> Norton IS 2007 that came as trail-ware with the system was slow, but at
>>> least it was stable and intrusive.
>>>
>>> I hate you McAfee!
>>
>>
>> hmmm...."intrusive"? or unobtrusive? I find that it is the latter.
>>
>> Dave
>