McAfee offering upgrades

but beware:

[PCInk]

If Macafee offer you to upgrade – don’t bother, here’s a list of problems I’ve had in about the last 3 or 4 days:

1) Can’t get emails
2) Sends almost everything to the spamkiller folder
3) You get javascript errors all the time (at least 3 or 4 before you can view a webpage – even if the page has no javascript on it)
4) It slows your computer to almost a halt

Solutions to anyone suffering the problems:

1) Turn SpamKiller off, completely. It is the slowest piece of software on the planet. What happens is it is soooo slow that your server will time out (I had my settings set to 5 minutes for timeout). You will have got one or two emails, but because the server timed out, you haven't deleted them off the server, so next time you get the same emails again and then it times out, again not deleting them.

2) Everything that it does pick up goes to the spamkiller folder - the settings are too high and it is too slow. Turn SpamKiller off. It resets all your settings when upgrading.

3) JavaScript errors are caused by SiteAdvisor (mainly affects Firefox). Turn SiteAdvisor off unless you need to use it for a specific site (i.e. to check a bank)

4) Slows to a halt - go through and turn most things off. Leave Virus protection and Firewall ON! Decide if you need the other things and disable if you feel appropriate.

VERY annoying bugs in this software. Easier option is to not upgrade yet until these are sorted (the upgrade pops up on the screen and is free).

[kaled]

Better solution...

AVG + ZoneAlarm : Free and (for most people) good enough.

I wouldn't use McAfee if you gave it to me.

Kaled.

[rocknbil]

I would! The disks are almost as good at keeping crows out of the garden as AOL disks! You just hang them from the fence wires . . . .

[bill]

Now you're insulting the crows. ;)

[Harry]

Serves you well for installing this program after all the warnings and horror stories. Shame on you!

[MatthewHSE]

I finally bit the bullet and bought Nod32. Absolutely no regrets; I've never run such a resource-light and unobtrusive AV application. As an added bonus, it has an option to receive all e-mail as plain text - something I haven't seen in an anti-virus software before.