Comments on: Did McAfee clobber my Firefox? http://listics.com/200707311257 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: alan herrell - the head lemur http://listics.com/200707311257#comment-44523 alan herrell - the head lemur Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:50:31 +0000 http://listics.com/200707311257#comment-44523 dwonload AVG for virus and firewall Kill McCaffee c o m p l e t e l y If you have the 'suite', an oxymoron of the first water, you may have to check their site to determine removal order, as they are just as bad a norton is in removal. Install TOR, remove cookie settings and remove links to IE anywhere on your desktop. disable Active X, .net and anything MS Live. D/L thunderbird for email Remove Media Player. D/L VLC Media Player Once you have done that move to linux. dwonload AVG for virus and firewall
Kill McCaffee c o m p l e t e l y
If you have the ’suite’, an oxymoron of the first water, you may have to check their site to determine removal order, as they are just as bad a norton is in removal.

Install TOR, remove cookie settings and remove links to IE anywhere on your desktop.
disable Active X, .net and anything MS Live.
D/L thunderbird for email
Remove Media Player.
D/L VLC Media Player

Once you have done that move to linux.

]]> By: Winston http://listics.com/200707311257#comment-44522 Winston Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:44:45 +0000 http://listics.com/200707311257#comment-44522 McAfee and Norton have both become so big and heavy and intrusive that I call them crapware. With my customers, I have refused to use them for the last couple of years. But just today I saw this identical situation, except McAfee screwed IE. Finally disabled all of McAfee in SERVICES and everything was fine. Re-enabled the anti-virus parts but left firewall components disabled, and still OK. Tomorrow we do what the customer should have done in the first place -- blow away McAfee and install AVG, which has a small footprint, costs less, is less intrusive, and it works. Trend Micro also good. McAfee and Norton have both become so big and heavy and intrusive that I call them crapware. With my customers, I have refused to use them for the last couple of years. But just today I saw this identical situation, except McAfee screwed IE. Finally disabled all of McAfee in SERVICES and everything was fine. Re-enabled the anti-virus parts but left firewall components disabled, and still OK. Tomorrow we do what the customer should have done in the first place — blow away McAfee and install AVG, which has a small footprint, costs less, is less intrusive, and it works. Trend Micro also good.

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