Is anyone else annoyed with Anti Virus programs Norton Mcafee etc?
NORTON ANTISPAM - YAH RIGHT!
Like the "do not call list" that every one running for public office is using this year. Sure they may block spam from other people but they will spam the hell out of you themselves.
I bought Norton a few years ago, then upgraded last year for $29.95 or so. Then a month before my subscription expires I get daily or sometimes hourly pop ups from Norton letting me know that my Norton Internet Security subscription is going to expire in 31 days I choose later, then ok and sure enough it pops up a few hrs later. This has been going on for weeks now and after choosing a few hundred later and then ok I've decided the Hell with Norton time to try someone else.
LICENSING COMPLAINT - I really don't mind paying for licenses ... just make it logical and affordable for us!
Another complaint of mine is why can't software companies give us home user licenses, let us register a few computers under our name and use one license for all of our PCs. In a perfect world, we should all have a pc, each kid, maybe a media center or two for recording TV, so several in the house. If you are like me and have been working on PCs since ... well a long time. I have a lot of old PCs sitting around the house that are great for the kids ... well kind of great, another blog about kids wanting to play Sims 2. I think we have one on each floor and each kid has one so 5 or 6 PCs from p3-500 to p4-3.2 ... I'm waiting for a quad core ... another blog someday about how slow fast really is.
McAfee -
Great idea 3 pc license ... but poor implementation. Ok McAfee may work too but its such a hassle that its probably not worth it. I though wow the same price as norton and I get 3 licenses, lets give it a try! Wrong! Ok I have a 3 user license but I have to register 3 times with 3 different email addresses no less uh! To really botch things up try making restricted accounts for your kids on their pcs so they cannot install free smiley faces with spyware. Yah works great but really screws up McAfee and it cannot update the virus checker unless admin is logged in, kids get so many errors their heads start to spin.
Wait I'm not done.... mcafee get a hint here you are close just fix these hassles for us. Ok for some reason the mcafee license needs to varified ... great now what email address did I use on what computer. Shish I give up on McAfee TOO! NOT Worth the hassle, I should just let the kids destroy the machines and teach them how to rebuild their pcs.
MICROSOFT LIVE - Anyone use it? What do you think? Good, bad or avg?
What about Microsoft Live antivirus. I bought a 3 user license again even cheaper than Mcafee but then my concern is do I have to use Internet Explorer and all other Microsoft crap to get it to work. I emailed support and the girl thought so. I'm holding off on installing it until I figure this out. I've learned to hate microsoft over the years although its a love hate, they do some good but they really should have broken up the company a few years ago. They screw with their stuff and mess up the world who uses it all of the time. I got some bug fix to I.E. the other day and ebay stopped working. I use netscape and firefox whenever I can but Microsoft is constantly working to destroy everyone in the world. Its part of Bill's plan screw the world and then give some back to the people who's lives he's destroyed to get his photo with Bono on some magazine. Ok enough bill bashing. Should I load this or take it back?
RECOMENDATIONS:
I do use avast at home for my kids pc's and is NO Hassle and Free, I would not even mind paying something for it. It gets updated automatically and seems to work fine.