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Zedman1

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December 13th, 2006 04:00

McAfee is so annoying...

I remember last year when i bought my Dimension 1100 home desktop it came with a free anti virus for 1 year. The anti virus was something by McAfee.

About 1 week after i bought it it started downloading something...
It was downloading other programs!!!
And i couldn't stop it!
It downloaded things like spy ware removers, firewalls ect. I never asked for these things and plus i have dial up so it made my already slow internet completely unusable for ages!

Since then i completely un-installed any remains of any McAffe branded piece of software. But today i was rummaging around the computer and from all that time ago it had kept the firewall in a deep spot in the c drive. LOL

(I now have Norton 2005 with the new updates and its wonderful.)
Anyway, thats my annoying story. Anyone else have this problem or have a similar one?
  • europa303

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    Posted December 13th, 2006 17:00

    This McAfee Removal Tool should remove all remnants of McAfee products. 

    Message Edited by europa303 on 12-13-200602:55 PM

  • mombodog

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    Posted December 14th, 2006 16:00

    Then get this after removal
     
  • stan_1936

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    Posted December 16th, 2006 01:00

    CA...what's the performance of the system like after installing the antivirus software?  Any noticeable slowdowns?
  • mombodog

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    Posted December 16th, 2006 02:00

    Depends on your CPU and the maker of the AV, I have used this CA for a year on several PC's and it is very lightweight.