software clash

[cellio]

The Norton personal firewall that came pre-installed on my new machine is interfering with the McAfee anti-virus package I immediately installed. These days, that's just plain bad manners. I guess it's time to shut the Norton firewall down and consider replacing it with McAfee's. (I wasn't previously running with a personal firewall, relying on the router to do that for me. I'm not sure I need it.) The firewall is probably a trial copy anyway; the machine also came with Norton anti-virus, but only for 60 days.

(I prefer McAfee anti-virus to Norton; it does a better job of telling me what it's doing and it doesn't demand to restart my machine after practically every update the way Norton did when I was using it. I have no opinion on the firewalls, other than a sneaking suspicion that it'll work best if from the same vendor.)

Apropos of nothing, I just made an appointment with my vet for "Erik plus one". She wants to see Erik in a few weeks and they're all due for checkups, but I they could only fit in two cats on the target night. So we'll see who I manage to catch that night. :-)

Comments

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Any reason you're not considering the ZoneAlarm product for your firewall. From what I've seen, it does a better job. Also, consider getting a hardware router, even if you only have one computer, to provide additional protection and NAT translation.

[cellio]

I have a hardware router with built-in firewall. So to some extent this is belt and suspenders.

I hadn't considered ZoneAlarm mostly because I hadn't considered any (additional) firwalls before finding one on my new machine. Thanks for the pointer.