BEWARE of the McAFEE MONSTER!

Well, I have Win98SE and I tried the McAfee offered by comcast.net as part of
their package.
I had uninstalled NSW2003Pro and then installed McAfee.
Other than the very bothersome updates that required a reboot to take effect, I
thought it did OK.
Then, while running a program and then taken out of it by a McAfee udate in
progress, my program froze and I had to do a hard reboot.
(yes, I even tried a ctrl-alt-del to no avail).
Well, I then lost everything in my Inbox and other stuff.
I continued to use McAfee and I have had nothing but problems with it.
Other McAfee updates would fail and I would have to manually update McAfee and
then it would just reinstall itself over itself.
Perhaps it doesn't work with Win98SE, but i didn't see anything that stated
that.
It caused a lot of problems with my system and I lost a lot of data.
I then uninstalled McAfee and installed AVG free version a few weeks ago.
Much happier.

"Howard Davis" <howard.davis2xspam.TakeThisOut@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:OT4ah.104818$Fi1.64250@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I have McAfee Security Center and Virus Scan 10. My OS is Win XP. My
> computer was unacceptably slowed by the McAfee software, but
> changing several settings under "services" helped. The frequent
> automatic updating and sweeps however were still unacceptably
> detrimental to computer speed, especially on bootup.
>
> Several days ago Virus Scan apparently stopped working. I got a
> window stating that the version installed was incompatible with my
> OS, and advising to uninstall, reboot, and reinstall. I did this,
> which required a new download. After all that I STILL got the same
> incompatibility notice.
>
> I went to the McAfee tech support website, installed and ran their
> Virtual Technician, and was told thereby that there is no problem!
>
> I found some information on the website that, though inaccurate,
> allowed me to fix the incompatibility notice problem - but other
> problems still exist.
>
> While the program now appears to be running - downloading updates,
> sweeping, etc., when I try to open it via the taskbar icon or
> desktop shortcut all I get is a Security Center window "gathering
> your protection status" covering most of the desktop, and I cannot
> get rid of it without rebooting. I also have a yellow taskbar icon
> indicating the computer is not protected, and like the window, it is
> unresponsive.
>
> Hours of my time have been wasted, and I am FED UP with the ongoing,
> from day one, poor performance of McAfee software! The McAfee tech
> support website is a waste of time unless you want to PAY for
> support - it does not allow emailing them, the chat is difficult to
> conduct, and I've found it totally frustrating. McAfee's refund
> policy is that if one month has passed since your purchase, screw
> you!
>
> Looks like I'll have to uninstall this McAfee monster and go for
> Grisoft. From experience, I also have a pretty low opinion of
> Symantec/Norton.
>
> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>

Well, I have Win98SE and I tried the McAfee offered by comcast.net as part of
their package.
I had uninstalled NSW2003Pro and then installed McAfee.
Other than the very bothersome updates that required a reboot to take effect, I
thought it did OK.
Then, while running a program and then taken out of it by a McAfee udate in
progress, my program froze and I had to do a hard reboot.
(yes, I even tried a ctrl-alt-del to no avail).
Well, I then lost everything in my Inbox and other stuff.
I continued to use McAfee and I have had nothing but problems with it.
Other McAfee updates would fail and I would have to manually update McAfee and
then it would just reinstall itself over itself.
Perhaps it doesn't work with Win98SE, but i didn't see anything that stated
that.
It caused a lot of problems with my system and I lost a lot of data.
I then uninstalled McAfee and installed AVG free version a few weeks ago.
Much happier.

"Howard Davis" <howard.davis2xspam.TakeThisOut@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:OT4ah.104818$Fi1.64250@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> I have McAfee Security Center and Virus Scan 10. My OS is Win XP. My
> computer was unacceptably slowed by the McAfee software, but
> changing several settings under "services" helped. The frequent
> automatic updating and sweeps however were still unacceptably
> detrimental to computer speed, especially on bootup.
>
> Several days ago Virus Scan apparently stopped working. I got a
> window stating that the version installed was incompatible with my
> OS, and advising to uninstall, reboot, and reinstall. I did this,
> which required a new download. After all that I STILL got the same
> incompatibility notice.
>
> I went to the McAfee tech support website, installed and ran their
> Virtual Technician, and was told thereby that there is no problem!
>
> I found some information on the website that, though inaccurate,
> allowed me to fix the incompatibility notice problem - but other
> problems still exist.
>
> While the program now appears to be running - downloading updates,
> sweeping, etc., when I try to open it via the taskbar icon or
> desktop shortcut all I get is a Security Center window "gathering
> your protection status" covering most of the desktop, and I cannot
> get rid of it without rebooting. I also have a yellow taskbar icon
> indicating the computer is not protected, and like the window, it is
> unresponsive.
>
> Hours of my time have been wasted, and I am FED UP with the ongoing,
> from day one, poor performance of McAfee software! The McAfee tech
> support website is a waste of time unless you want to PAY for
> support - it does not allow emailing them, the chat is difficult to
> conduct, and I've found it totally frustrating. McAfee's refund
> policy is that if one month has passed since your purchase, screw
> you!
>
> Looks like I'll have to uninstall this McAfee monster and go for
> Grisoft. From experience, I also have a pretty low opinion of
> Symantec/Norton.
>
> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>