re: Registry
Monday, November 2, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MartinM
(5115 messages posted)
MailFrontier Desktop is an anti-spam anti-phishing filter and IMHO far superior to
McAfee's offering.
Its part of a list of products that McAfee insists on users removing before installing
itself - including MalwareBytes, SuperAntiSpyware and SpywareBlaster (all of which
form part of my "sensible but safe" surfing kit !) - how arrogant and manipulative
is that ? I wonder what the European Commission think of it relative to MS's anti-competitive
practices ?
History says that all such attempts to achieve world domination come a cropper in
the end, meantime I've dumped McAfee from any of my PCs that had it - the idea that
one scanner can catch anf fix everything is patently wrong and certainly not in the
customers' best interests.
You could have looked this up in the McAfee on-line forum but it is down for maintenance.
Why am I not surprised ? Overload ? Or should that have been Overlord ?
On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 11:57 am, Martin wrote:
>I was installing the McAfee 2009 suite when a message came up that "MailFrontier
>Desktop" was interfering with the installation of McAfee. I looked in all of my
>Programs, Add and Remove Programs, Search for Files and Folders, and there was no
>MailFrontier Desktop. So I called McAfee tech support. The technician went to
>my registry, deleted a key, and the McAfee installation then worked. When I asked
>him how he knew what key to remove, he (crypticly) said "I looked it up." I would
>like to know where he looked it up, what key he removed, and how he knew it pertained
>to MailFrontier Desktop. I can't call McAfee again, since they only supply tech
>support during new installations, and I would doubt very much if I can get the help
>I need there. Can anyone help me here? Martin.
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