software clash
Dec. 27th, 2004 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioThe 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. :-)
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Date: 2004-12-28 12:28 am (UTC)But when people mention virus-protection for Windows I feel compelled to mention two products, both of which are free:
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