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I have a Dell Dimension E510 with windows media center 2005 and it came with a McAfee trial period which ran out but I keep getting alerts to goto McAfee for downloading something. I've disabled the damn alerts in the configure box but I still get the alerts. I wouldn't complain but it pops up while I'm playing Civ 4 and it interupts the game to goto the desktop screen. How do I disable these alerts?
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Why not just uninstall McAfee?...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty -
That'd probably work.
I haven't used McAfee since I got a year of it beginning in February...which ended in May. I repeated asked them what kind of year runs for only 3 months, but could never get a response.
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I have a friend who had the exact same problem. For some unfathomable reason, because he couldn't get the alerts to stop, he opted to - rather than uninstalling - reformat his hard drive.
Yeah, uninstalling is probably your best option. For new virus scanning that's free, I recommend AVG, easily found online.Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake TungstenComment
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I've heard good things about AVG as well. From one of my computer tech friends.
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I brought a similar set-up a few months ago. One of the first things I did was uninstall all of the crap they loaded onto the PC (including the McAfee trial, AOL, Netscape, ad nausem). Never had any problems after that.
(I already own a copy of Norton Systemworks and Internet Security anyway)"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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As time goes on, I'm increasingly puzzled as to why people would need anti-virus software in the first place. I've never had a virus scanner installed, and in 8 years of being online, I've had all of one single virus, the msblast one a few years back, which didn't do any damage and was quite easily dealt with.
Why do people continue to pursue anti-virus software? Is it out of old habit, or do you really have that much trouble staying clear of vira?Comment
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How do you know how many you really had?
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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