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Sounds like the update unintentionally erased your activation, I'd contact support and try and work it out with them.

I would get a live person at McAfee and demand that your money be refunded....otherwise, given that there are countless others with the same problem, hell will freeze over before you get a response from them.....

Suggest getting Sophos Antivirus.....rated the best.....more money.....but I swear by it now. I had McAfee.....it failed me twice and let a virtumonde virus in twice.....had to totally clean out and reload entire computer both times.....and McAfee sucks, IMO!!!

If you can't afford Sophos, then the next best alternative is "Bitdefender", IMO....

Well, I think you typed in "sock hos" again.... ....

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tigerAspect wrote: Is there anything that's particularly bad about Windows Defender?

No, it's good to have.....MS has improved it quite a bit.....focussed on blocking windows-specific hijack/adware/malware programs.....want to use it in conjunction with a good antivirus program. I would also suggest using "Spybot Search & Destroy" (freeware) and enabling programs resident teatimer.....which does an excellent job of protecting system files.....but need to disable Teatimer when installing programs.....especially AV programs that read system files. Another good freebie is Spywareblaster in which you can save system snapshots and use them to restore if something happens.....

Hey Everyone,

Well,...I used to use McAfee, 10+ years ago, had way too many problems. Guess I am one of the lucky ones as I have been with Norton by Symantec for a good 10 years. I had some problems awhile back, turned out it was a parental setting that was blocking my automatic updates, long since resolved. The last several years have been trouble free & the software keeps improving, we even use Norton @ my work now.
I use Norton Internet Security, this year I also have Norton Utilities. Here in the US, if you watch the sales you can get a rebate from them & the store you purchase the product from. All I have been paying ea. year is the sales tax pretty much.

The computer Tec person who maintains all of our computers at my work told me, that it is better not to have too many different programs on the same computer, competing with your security program as it will cause conflicts.
To each his/her own, as long as it works. That was a real bad trip Carl

Have a GREAT day!

Ron

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ronjonnie wrote: it is better not to have too many different programs on the same computer, competing with your security program as it will cause conflicts.

Several years ago, I wrote an event booking software for a client, that used a lot of small files (each booking), that it synced over the network to server. All was well until one day, when they called me and said that it was dreadfully slow suddenly. The startup took 5 minutes, not 10 seconds. They had installed some new software on every of the 200 laptops they used.

After some analyzing, we found this sequence of events.
(a) My software wanted to open the first (of 1500 files)
(b) The antivirus program jumped in.
© The encryption program now decrypted the file.
(d) The antivirus now could read and analyze the file
(e) The Antivirus closed the file
(f) The Encryption program now encrypted the file again
(g) My application was how handled back control
(h) The encryption program now decrypted the file.
(i) I could read the file
(j) I closed the file
(k) The Encryption program now encrypted the file again
(l) Repeat 1500 times, or more..

So I had to create one large file with all the small files in it, then I was back to 10 seconds startup. This could easily happen to a program like FF when you have 5000 filters...

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tigerAspect wrote: Is there anything that's particularly bad about Windows Defender

microsoft recently launch Security Essentials [ free ] which has been reviewed very well and I tryed out, it picked up things McAfee didn't, has a small footprint and is on guard all the time, I thought it was pretty good and will probly in the future just use that with spybot, spyblaster and malawarebytes and that should cover it

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Totte wrote: This could easily happen to a program like FF when you have 5000 filters...

it doesn't pay to have to many installed can be painfully slow to launch, I moved some to another file, I just wish FF could load files out side of the program with out mucking around

yeah you definitly think they'd test these things throughly or at least try it once LOL ....... it looks like intel is buying McAfee, funny cause that was one of the companies caught in the crash

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StevieJ wrote: I have to warn to stay away from any of the free AV programs....needlessly suck huge resources, always read false positives, and will read system functions as viruses too. Some free programs are good....but none of the freebie AVs....

steve,

you really need to quit indulging in these gross generalities. AVG is a very good anti-virus. it has a free version and a pay version. both are good, are updated regularly and i've had maybe one or two false positives since i started using it years ago!

also, zone alarm does have an AV, but that is the pay-for suite. you can get just the firewall by itself and get it for free. and yes, it's generally not a good idea to use two firewalls or two AV's on the same system, though i find the one exception to this is if you have a software firewall like zone alarm and a hardware firewall like in a router.

i shld also mention that even though i dont like norton overall, they do have an extensive virus finding and testing lab, probably the largest on the planet. so, though i dont like the invasive quality of their stuff, it probably is a very extensive anti-virus program.

steve, my only point isnt if avg is good or not; it's the use of negative generalities. by saying 'all things are bad', a negative generality, one tends to paint a rather bleak, unreal picture, especially when backed up with 'everyone knows' and 'they' and 'many'... more generalities.

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At first I was offended with how you put that....but I'm over it....

noted. wasnt intended.

quite odd that we've had such completely different experiences with the same program. AVG has always installed quite easily for me, always updated easily and never noticably interfered with resources. and, that's not to say that anything you just said was wrong... it's just odd.

never heard of Sophos AV, but may well look into it now sorry you had so much trouble with viruses... might wanna stay off those pron sites

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StevieJ wrote: What's a "pron site", Mr. speller??? smile:D Might wanna lay off the "sauce" a little.... smile;) smile:D LOL....

Yea, everyone knows it's spelt Pr0n.

LOL....

hehehe