I hate fixing computers
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If you thought that was bad, my brother had a McAfee trial pre-installed when he bought his laptop. When it expired, it blocked his internet connection. So, I thought, let's remove it, then. Well, no. Going to control panel, selecting McAfee Security Center (or whatever it's called) and clicking Change/Remove did nothing, except making Windows Installer think it was running an installer, preventing me from removing anything else. I had to go through Safe Mode to successfully remove it. A couple of years earlier when helping someone else, I had a similar problem with Norton Internet security, where removing Norton also removed the 'System Tools' directory in the Start Menu. tldr; Seems like the Antivirus tools are becoming viruses themselves.
Tom Lint wrote:
Seems like the Antivirus tools are becoming viruses themselves
Time was, McAfee was the best antivirus you could get. Then it got invasive and became more of a problem than a help. Next Norton. Now AVG is going there. Time to vote with my wallet again. I know somewhere there's a pattern here.. if only the antivirus writers could figure it out and fix it for me :)
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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I've gone for the "FORMAT C:" option :-D
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
I've gone for the "FORMAT C:" option :-D
No need - These days you just delete the partition :D
-= Reelix =-
Insufficiently destructive - it doesn't damage the MBR! :laugh:
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Did the same thing for my father a couple of weeks ago. Cleaned up his hard drive, installed more memory, MSE, and made a shorcut to Chrome on his desktop clearly labeled INTERNET. Using IE, Norton and Yahoo had brought his machine to it's knees.
What me worry?
Anyone actually paying for antivirus on Windows is wasting their money-- Microsoft Security Essentials is free and works great. It is just too bad they don't have a free offering for Servers.... And it is an integral part of Windows 8! :-D Steve
Just think of it as evolution in action.
