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  • G Gary R Wheeler

    Been there, done that, got the straitjacket. Our glorious morons in corporate I.T. forced McAfee on us. It's supposed real-time virus scanning reduced the speed of our build machine to a crawl. Apparently anything that writes .EXE files is suspicious :rolleyes:. Fortunately, McAfee is pretty stupid. I told it that the exclusion list for real-time scanning was C:\ and E:\ and all subdirectories.

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    Yusuf
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    Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

    I told it that the exclusion list for real-time scanning was C:\ and E:\ and all subdirectories.

    Exactly, that is how I control the beast. Watch out though, when ever they push an update, it seems to purge the exclusion list. I have noticed my exclusion list wiped out several times.

    Yusuf

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    • P Pete OHanlon

      Wow - swearing by umlaut; what an impressive way to bypass the censors.

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      Gary R Wheeler
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      I prefer the embedded fucking <nobr> tag, myself.

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      • G Gary R Wheeler

        I prefer the embedded fucking <nobr> tag, myself.

        Software Zen: delete this;
        Fold With Us![^]

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        Lost User
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        Fuck me! There's a fucking censor! Well, I'll be fucked! I've fucking wasted my fucking time with these cunt censoring my fucking shit manually and now I fucking find I didn't fucking have to because the fuckers have an auto-fucking-matic fucking censor! incidentally (and a note to Chris) the plural of the c-word isn't censored (as I nearly found out to my embarrassment when typing this!)

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          Fuck me! There's a fucking censor! Well, I'll be fucked! I've fucking wasted my fucking time with these cunt censoring my fucking shit manually and now I fucking find I didn't fucking have to because the fuckers have an auto-fucking-matic fucking censor! incidentally (and a note to Chris) the plural of the c-word isn't censored (as I nearly found out to my embarrassment when typing this!)

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          Maxxx_ wrote:

          the plural of the c-word isn't censored

          Ha! OpenVMS has a list of words that you're not allowed to use for passwords, it includes the usual suspects, but not the C-word! I assume it's too offensive to require someone to add to the list.

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          • G Gary R Wheeler

            I prefer the embedded fucking <nobr> tag, myself.

            Software Zen: delete this;
            Fold With Us![^]

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            Brady Kelly
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            Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

            ed fucking

            Nice! Ta.

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              Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

              ed fucking

              Nice! Ta.

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              Gary R Wheeler
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              Why do I get the feeling I've unleashed a monster upon the world :sigh: ...

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              • B Brady Kelly

                Invasive doesn't begin to describe this contagion! Despairingly trying to get DHCP working on my new laptop - wired and wireless are down - and I find a glimmer of hope in the MS KB 928233: Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers. Rushing in where other fear to tread, I find I can't even modify registry values as admin, :mad: so I immediately suspect McAfck and turn off all their services bar one, for which the stop option is greyed out, even for admin, and set them all, except that one, to manual start. I add the recommended key, which doesn't help, so I reckon maybe a restart. After the restart, I once again can't edit registry values, and I find all but one McFugee service is still on manual start, but they are nearly all started! :mad: :mad: :mad: That POS is the first out-of-box piece of software to see it's arse. The Acer stuff seems quite well behaved.

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                Brady Kelly wrote:

                Invasive . . . contagion!

                That's why I stopped using it years ago and switched to Avast.


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                  Brady Kelly wrote:

                  Invasive . . . contagion!

                  That's why I stopped using it years ago and switched to Avast.


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                  Ah, that reminds me - I need to try the Win7 AVG. MS lists four recommended a/v vendors for Win7: Norton, McAfee, Kasperski, and AVG, so that already narrows the choice down to between only the latter two. My colleague, and their blurb, tell me Kasperski is a bit intrusive.

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                  • B Brady Kelly

                    Ah, that reminds me - I need to try the Win7 AVG. MS lists four recommended a/v vendors for Win7: Norton, McAfee, Kasperski, and AVG, so that already narrows the choice down to between only the latter two. My colleague, and their blurb, tell me Kasperski is a bit intrusive.

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                    Give Avast a try... I really can't think that stuff has changed that much that a Vista compatible AV would not be compatible.


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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      Wow - swearing by umlaut; what an impressive way to bypass the censors.

                      "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                      As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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                      Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                      Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                      Wow - swearing by umlaut; what an impressive way to bypass the censors.

                      So appropriate given the subject matter too. :)

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