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Beware of McAfee Privacy Services
I recently bought a new computer...thank goodness, since my old one was on its last leg, and yes, it's a Dell...which comes with McAfee Security package (which I much prefer Norton, but I am giving McAfee a shot)....

Anyway, I decided to test the McAfee Privacy Services, which allows you to ban ads, checks cookies, etc. Well, after installing it, my Apache service stopped running...had to run it manually through the console to get it to work, if that wasn't annoying enough, I could no longer FTP to any of the remote servers I have access to, not to mention the annoying cookie check, which basically crashed Outlook.

So, just some advice...be aware of McAfee's Privacy Service...the Anti-Virus service doesn't seem to be much different than Norton, so I may stick with McAfee's Virus Protection Service, but I am definitely staying away from the Privacy Service and with the havic it caused, I will most likely stay away from the Firewall Protection as well.
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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me
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Thread Beware of McAfee Privacy Services Stealth 4074 May 11, 2003, 11:03 AM
Thread Re: [Stealth] Beware of McAfee Privacy Services
Chaz 3822 May 11, 2003, 11:31 AM
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Stealth 3838 May 11, 2003, 9:14 PM
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Chaz 3791 May 12, 2003, 8:07 PM