re: Registry
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(8785 messages posted)
The fact you have to take away your computer's defenses to install their product
makes me a little curios just what all McAfee is installing.
On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:48 pm, MartinM wrote:
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>MailFrontier Desktop is an anti-spam anti-phishing filter and IMHO far superior
to
>McAfee's offering.
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>Its part of a list of products that McAfee insists on users removing before installing
>itself - including MalwareBytes, SuperAntiSpyware and SpywareBlaster (all of which
>form part of my "sensible but safe" surfing kit !) - how arrogant and manipulative
>is that ? I wonder what the European Commission think of it relative to MS's anti-competitive
>practices ?
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>History says that all such attempts to achieve world domination come a cropper in
>the end, meantime I've dumped McAfee from any of my PCs that had it - the idea that
>one scanner can catch anf fix everything is patently wrong and certainly not in
the
>customers' best interests.
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>You could have looked this up in the McAfee on-line forum but it is down for maintenance.
>Why am I not surprised ? Overload ? Or should that have been Overlord ?
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