mcafee web site double click cookie

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Anyone ever downloaded the virus scan from the mcafee website, on the billing info web page my browser is blocking the double click cookie, which i think is preventing me from sending my billing info to proceed.  I am using spywarguard and spywareblaster

Yellowhammer · Answer

In my opinon NOD32 is the best antivirus available.  It is dedicated to stopping viruses and does not include all the other bloat that is becoming common these days with Norton, McAfee, etc.  NOD32 scans faster than any other and has passed more VirusBulletin 100 tests than any other.  You can try a free 30 day trial and decide for yourself at here.  Another good paid alternative is PANDA Titanium.  A good free version is AVG Version 6.0.

lvhkyjr2 · Answer

Im not sure if that was the problem but was just wandering why that cookie is there.  They told me to overide cookie handling and always alow session cookies will fix it in the internet option IE6.  What is a good anti virus ,only reason why I was gonna get mcafee because it came pre installed on my comp.

Yellowhammer · Answer

I am surprised that preventing a doubleclick cookie would prevent your sending the billing information. That cookie is probably being blocked because it is listed in the Restricted Zone in Internet Explorer Security. (It is one of the sites added by IE-SPYAD You can remove it from there if you need to and see if it changes things. I doubt it will.

If you are at the McAfee site to give them money for a prescription update, it is an ideal time to dump McAfee and get an alternative. There are better paid programs such as NOD32 and Panda.

msgale · Answer

I know I am slightly off the topic but, I think you are missing the point about AV software, the speed it scans you disk is unimportant.  If the virus gets on you disk your are already in big trouble.  The key is to prevent infected external file from reaching your PC.  Which is scanning e-mails and their attachments, downloads and any external media being accessed, i.e floppies, CDs DVDs Zip drives.  Currently I am using Norton Corporate version 8.1, because I am running a Windwos 2003 Server at home.  It appears to be working reliability. Message Edited by msgale on 12-25-2003 06:57 PM

lvhkyjr2 · Answer

Downloaded NOD32 , that program scan is twice as fast as McAfee virus scan, but I noticed it dosnt scan as many files as McAfee does

Yellowhammer · Answer

That is normal.  If you read the documentation (available here) you will see that this is part of the memory system and is scanned during the memory scan when NOD32 first starts up. Message Edited by Yellowhammer on 12-25-2003 08:40 PM

Yellowhammer · Answer

And NOD32 also scans e-mails and their attachments, downloads and any external media being accessed, i.e floppies, CDs DVDs Zip drives.

lvhkyjr2 · Answer

Since your running NOD32 have one question about the scan results, im getting C:pagefile.sys-error opening (file locked) [4].  At the bottom under notes its saying 4 file cannot be open, It is being exclusively used by another application or operating system.  That normal?

Yellowhammer · Answer

A: is your floppy drive.  If there was no disk in it that is why you got the error.  I assume E is a CD drive.  You probably did not have a CD in it.

lvhkyjr2 · Answer

Another thing that my scan shows up and cant find it in the manual you gave me

Boot sector of disk A: -error reading disk sector

Directory path A:\ is invalid

Directory path E:\ is invalid

Is this normal?

lvhkyjr2 · Answer

Alright ya I didnt have anything in both drives, so thats why an error was showing, well just making sure the error was normal, thanks

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