Tell me about it. I turned everything off in McAfee (using a HW firewall) but it keep coming up with these stupid alert boxes. I'll probably dump it.
Especially the stuff that works only for a month and then reduces itself to a pittance unless you pay up. To me that's the perfect way to destroy a potential customer's interest.
Reminds me of my first employer. They had to have a revolving company sign. Not the virtual one but real and on a huge galvanized mast. The freeway that went by ended up becoming a ghostway because it hadn't really been needed for any commute routes (your tax cents at work...). It was like connecting a wire between two nodes that are both at the same potential at all times.
What I really dislike is when otherwise reputable companies won't let you on their web site unless you download flash player. They aren't on my black list but I haven't used any of their products in designs either lately.
I was asked for my opinion on a new web portal for a company a couple days ago. Lots of glitz, lean on the meat as usual. My honest answer was "none of the above". Maybe they won't ask me again but I had to be honest.
I'll assume that you've forgotten what I wrote after the above sentence. Everything in your sentence seems to imply, however, that you never even read it.
I spend more time removing McAfee and Norton stuff from the computers I rebuild for disabled veterans than on anything else. They don't un-install properly, so I spend a lot of time with regedit to find and remove everything. AOL is next on the list of bad un-installs.
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