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re: Registry Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:48 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) MailFrontier Desktop is an anti-spam anti-phishing filter and IMHO far superior to McAfee's offering. 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 ? 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. 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 ? On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:57 am, Martin wrote: >I was installing the McAfee 2009 suite when a message came up that "MailFrontier >Desktop" was interfering with the installation of McAfee. I looked in all of my >Programs, Add and Remove Programs, Search for Files and Folders, and there was no >MailFrontier Desktop. So I called McAfee tech support. The technician went to >my registry, deleted a key, and the McAfee installation then worked. When I asked >him how he knew what key to remove, he (crypticly) said "I looked it up." I would >like to know where he looked it up, what key he removed, and how he knew it pertained >to MailFrontier Desktop. I can't call McAfee again, since they only supply tech >support during new installations, and I would doubt very much if I can get the help >I need there. Can anyone help me here? Martin. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:15 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 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: > >MailFrontier Desktop is an anti-spam anti-phishing filter and IMHO far superior to >McAfee's offering. > >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 ? > >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. > >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 ? > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:57 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) As for how they knew which key, a legit program stores its settings in the windows registry and will almost always use the same place to do so. That is how the teck knew where mailfront keeps its settings. On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:57 am, Martin wrote: >I was installing the McAfee 2009 suite when a message came up that "MailFrontier >Desktop" was interfering with the installation of McAfee. I looked in all of my >Programs, Add and Remove Programs, Search for Files and Folders, and there was no >MailFrontier Desktop. So I called McAfee tech support. The technician went to >my registry, deleted a key, and the McAfee installation then worked. When I asked >him how he knew what key to remove, he (crypticly) said "I looked it up." I would >like to know where he looked it up, what key he removed, and how he knew it pertained >to MailFrontier Desktop. I can't call McAfee again, since they only supply tech >support during new installations, and I would doubt very much if I can get the help >I need there. Can anyone help me here? Martin. [Reply or follow-up to this message] we need an edit button Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:59 pm Posted by Adam Bradley (8787 messages posted) Well normal is a better word than legit, some program do use settings files of their own and bypass the registry for the most part. On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 4:57 pm, Adam Bradley wrote: >As for how they knew which key, a legit program stores its settings in the windows >registry and will almost always use the same place to do so. That is how the teck >knew where mailfront keeps its settings. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:29 pm Posted by Steve (23811 messages posted) When in the Registry, it has a search feature called,"Find". He probably just typed MailFrontier in the Find box to find any leftovers of the program. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Registry Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 5:56 am Posted by Chris J (1 messages posted) A friend of mine has just had the same problem. It turns out MailFrontier Desktop is bundled with Zonealarm,which my friend had uninstalled. However, the MFD uninstall information was left behind inthe Registry (HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall/.... ). We just backed up the Registry, deleted the MFD uninstall key, and McAfee installed OK. On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:29 pm, Steve wrote: >When in the Registry, it has a search feature called,"Find". He probably just typed >MailFrontier in the Find box to find any leftovers of the program. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum