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Re: McAfee VirusScan 5.x

Started by n/a, September 26, 2001, 12:05 hrs

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Great review, Chandler. I used McAfee back in the Windows 3.1 days and it was very good, but as I recall that version dead-ended with Win 95. Never had much luck with it from then on. The bugs were just too prevalent with 95; upgrading to newer engines was a hassle and rarely completely successful. McAfee's answer was always to buy the latest version and do a clean install. When the latest virus definitions would no longer install after downloading I gave up.

Ironically, I originally went with McAfee over Norton AV because I'd heard horror stories about NAV interfering with other software. I finally switched when I moved up to Windows 98 and have had NO problems whatsoever, though I do  disable Norton while installing new software.