Comments on: Modern Windows Software

By: Gilles

Gilles — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:30:34 +0000

Give you 100% right: new McAfee products are designed to work EXCLUSIVELY with Microsoft IEs !!!
It’s a shame for a “Virus-killer” firm to deal with the obviously “viruses & worms” main entrance program!
As an over 10 years McAfee trusty customer, I tried to find a solution with them, but their arrogance is at least egal to their stupidity: they told me… “your’e free to choose another software” !
Clear I will do it: and I hope a lot of other potential customers will do so too!
A last tip: if you ever install (or have installed) McAfee Security Center, don’t think that you can simply de-install it…
After a complete shutdown, the first thing your PC will do is to contact a McAfee server, in stealth mode clear ;-)
I found a link, how to remove all this crap: two pages of intructions in order to manipulate the registry correctly!

Have fun! but don’t use McAfee…

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:02:04 +0000

I know Norton AV is currently installed via ActiveX here on campus to limit the number of downloads a student can perform. I’ve also noticed this was the primary reason for most of the distributions. I, personally, don’t see why they should do this. In any case people will find a way around it.

Since I’m not on any type of high speed inet, I always buy my software with shipping, so I don’t need to worry about this ‘you can only install this once’.

By: RichB

RichB — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:05:41 +0000

Google Talk is a good example of an app which looks and acts like a (AJAX) web page, but which works.

I rarely see apps which require installation via ActiveX. The big commercial anti-virus manufacturers seem to universally produce poor software.

AVG or Avast are popular alternatives.

By: The Black Knight

The Black Knight — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:58:42 +0000

I totaly agree with you. I have similer issues with almost any program that errors. Also the simplicity in the way program interfaces are designed is ridiculuos.