At work we used to run Norton Antivirus but when we switched from Novell to NT we decided to try McAfee. Boy was that ever a mistake. What a steaming pile of monkey dung their software is.
Their supposed central management software is anything but. When it tried to push updates out to our Windows 98 machines half of them would crap out and we'd have to manually go to each station and remove the configuration and reinstall.
When I spoke with their useless Tech Support people about this problem I asked how large corporations with separate offices handle this bug they said 'Oh those companies just train somebody at each location on how to clean out the config file'..huh? Central Management? Where?
Then we installed it on our Windows Terminal Servers. They ground to a halt with McAfee.
After talking with their most senior technicians for almost two months we gave up. I happened to come across Trend's site and installed their Server Protect product on one of our Terminal Servers. I didn't even have to do a reboot after the install. Nobody noticed it was installed. It works great and their support is top notch. They also included licenses for all of our staff to use PC-Cillin at home!!
No what I said was that you can only run IE on a non-free operating system. There's no version of IE for Linux or BSD or any other open source operating system. Since M$ uses IE to continue their monopoly I think that when you pay the M$ tax when you buy a PC then you're paying for IE and all the other M$ software.
Now if I decide to run Linux I have my choice...I can run a truly free browser like Mozilla or I can pay for a browser like Opera. With IE you don't get that option. Use it on a proprietary $$$$ OS or don't run it at all.
Since when is IE free??
Hello??
How much did you pay extra to get Winbloze on your computer?? How about Office??
If Microsoft came out with IE for Linux (God help us all if that ever happens...we'll need a registry for Linux...hehe...) then it could be considered a truly free browser.
But until that time you're still paying for it.
1) Go to www.mandrake.com
2)download the Mandrake 8.1 ISOs.
3) Burn them to a CD
4) Insert CD #1
5) Reboot
6) Follow on-screen instructions
Voila!! No more security problems with IE.
And I almost forgot...no more BSOD!!!
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At work we used to run Norton Antivirus but when we switched from Novell to NT we decided to try McAfee. Boy was that ever a mistake. What a steaming pile of monkey dung their software is.
Their supposed central management software is anything but. When it tried to push updates out to our Windows 98 machines half of them would crap out and we'd have to manually go to each station and remove the configuration and reinstall.
When I spoke with their useless Tech Support people about this problem I asked how large corporations with separate offices handle this bug they said 'Oh those companies just train somebody at each location on how to clean out the config file'..huh? Central Management? Where?
Then we installed it on our Windows Terminal Servers. They ground to a halt with McAfee.
After talking with their most senior technicians for almost two months we gave up. I happened to come across Trend's site and installed their Server Protect product on one of our Terminal Servers. I didn't even have to do a reboot after the install. Nobody noticed it was installed. It works great and their support is top notch. They also included licenses for all of our staff to use PC-Cillin at home!!
Go with Trend...you won't regret it!!
No what I said was that you can only run IE on a non-free operating system. There's no version of IE for Linux or BSD or any other open source operating system. Since M$ uses IE to continue their monopoly I think that when you pay the M$ tax when you buy a PC then you're paying for IE and all the other M$ software. Now if I decide to run Linux I have my choice...I can run a truly free browser like Mozilla or I can pay for a browser like Opera. With IE you don't get that option. Use it on a proprietary $$$$ OS or don't run it at all.
Since when is IE free?? Hello?? How much did you pay extra to get Winbloze on your computer?? How about Office?? If Microsoft came out with IE for Linux (God help us all if that ever happens...we'll need a registry for Linux...hehe...) then it could be considered a truly free browser. But until that time you're still paying for it.
1) Go to www.mandrake.com 2)download the Mandrake 8.1 ISOs. 3) Burn them to a CD 4) Insert CD #1 5) Reboot 6) Follow on-screen instructions Voila!! No more security problems with IE. And I almost forgot...no more BSOD!!!