[MACEP] McAfee Anti-Virus - Try PC-cillin

[Dave Moore]

Thomas -

Microsoft Secrets, by Brian Livingston (previous InfoWorld writer), suggests
PC-cillin in the latest newsletter (http://windowssecrets.com/comp/050428/).

He says "3. Antivirus program. Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet Security
2005 antivirus suite ($45), which also includes a personal firewall,
recently won head-to-head comparisons in PC World and CNET against McAfee's
and Symantec's offerings. Note: If you have ZoneAlarm Security Suite (see
above), you don't need a separate antivirus program."

This is not a bad newsletter and includes the latest thinking on many
technical issues, including security and spamware.

Dave
p.s.  I use Norton at work/home and find it simple, clean, and effective,
although I know there are many other options out there.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Glover [mailto:thomas_glover at soesd.k12.or.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:31 AM
To: macep at macep.net
Subject: [MACEP] McAfee Anti-Virus

Until recently I had been using Norton on our home PCs; however, we had a
difficulty with the recent version and have decided to try McAfee (?).

Questions: 
1. Thoughts about McAfee versus Norton (we run one machine on Win 98 and the
other on XP)?

2. I use Firefox as my day-to-day browser; when I tried to download McAfee I
got an message saying that it, McAfee, worked with IE and to open IE. I can
understand that one may need IE to download McAfee, but does that mean once
installed it ONLY works when using IE? Or, that it will not work with
Firefox?

3. When I tired to call McAFee I got a recording saying that the number was
no longer in service. ??

Thanks for any info./assistance.

Thomas Glover