software clash

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. :-)

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