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McAfee Internet Security

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I used McAfee Internet Security for many years but some time ago I decided to use AVG as a replacement and was very pleased with its functionality and efficiency.  AVG had also faired much better in a number of past reviews.

Having recently made the change to fibre broadband my new ISP provides McAfee Internet security as a free add on so I decided that once again I’d give it a try.

The lack of the previous spam filtering functionality was a disappointment but the fact that Windows Networking was blocked between my networked computers was a major annoyance.  I opened the appropriate ports and enabled the appropriate functions within the McAfee firewall without success.

I will be reverting to my previous security products and I doubt if I’ll ever use McAfee products again in the future.

A very cold Tuesday

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Welsh class again this morning, continuing to work on the current assessments, firing questions at each other and making notes of the answers. No rain today which makes a welcome change but the weather has become much colder with quite a frost last night.

A new release of the blog software today, quite a few changes to options and plugins, I’ve completed the upgrade and it seems to be working as planned.

The problems with email on my webhost appear to have been resolved, they’ve been undertaking a server upgrade and for several days recently email access has been dreadful. Apparently no emails sent to me have been lost but they have been taking a significant time to arrive, the backlog has now been cleared so fingers crossed!

I’ve also upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2007 on my notebook computer, a tortuous upgrade that probably needs a complete uninstall and reinstall which may sort out the problems. In typical Norton / Symantec style the uninstallation fails, I’ve raised a support query but as my last one went unanswered I’m not holding my breath. I have two months left with my current subscription so the jury’s still out on whether I’ll continue using the product or revert to my previous security products.