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Summary: Disabled my printer
Review: After I installed McAfee Firewall, my HP Laserjet printer stopped working. It appears that the firewall software caused my printer driver to freeze. Tech support was not helpful at all. Their only suggestion was to uninstall and reinstall the firewall. After I unstalled it, my printer started working again. When I reinstalled the firewall, my printer would not work. Based on the other reviews, it sure looks like this software has a bad habit of hosing various software and hardware applications.
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Summary: hosed up game play
Review: All I can say is that this product was a bit annoying to work with. It didn't seem to get along well with my system. Maybe it didn't like my Norton Anti-Virus or something - I'm not sure. The worst is that I could not play Unreal Tournament on-line with this running. Messages from McAffee Firewall would freeze up my game and PC and require a re-boot! Not cool. After twiddling with it and re-booting several times I uninstalled it. Get ZoneAlarm Pro instead. It's the thing to have.
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Summary: hosed up game play
Review: All I can say is that this product was a bit annoying to work with. It didn't seem to get along well with my system. Maybe it didn't like my Norton Anti-Virus or something - I'm not sure. The worst is that I could not play Unreal Tournament on-line with this running. Messages from McAffee Firewall would freeze up my game and PC and require a re-boot! Not cool. After twiddling with it and re-booting several times I uninstalled it. Get ZoneAlarm Pro instead. It's the thing to have.
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Summary: Awful
Review: Couldn't get it to work with Windows 2000 and a dial-up account. After searching their site for a while, I found one note to this effect. Two technicians couldn't help me at all with this problem, and I would think this is a fairly common setup. Bad tech support, poor installation and documentation.I'll never buy another McAfee product again.
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Summary: McAfee Firewall
Review: Do not buy this software. I should have read the reviews first. I have learned a lesson from this purchase. Impossible to install without affecting other components, it should be titled "McAfee Headache in a Box"
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Summary: DO NOT LET IT NEAR YOUR PC
Review: Had I only read the reviews here before buying the "Office Suite". I updated my Windows 2000 Pro notebook, and it did not even install. Next, I thought it would install on my wife's new Windows XP notebook. There, it screwed up something in the networking software and prohibits us from using the modem to access the Internet. Nobody has been able to help us fix this, and the McAfee support is virtually non-existent.
This is a trap: How much time (=money) is it worth to you to deal with these people and install and uninstall and fix their software's problems?
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Summary: DO NOT LET IT NEAR YOUR PC
Review: Had I only read the reviews here before buying the "Office Suite". I updated my Windows 2000 Pro notebook, and it did not even install. Next, I thought it would install on my wife's new Windows XP notebook. There, it screwed up something in the networking software and prohibits us from using the modem to access the Internet. Nobody has been able to help us fix this, and the McAfee support is virtually non-existent.
This is a trap: How much time (=money) is it worth to you to deal with these people and install and uninstall and fix their software's problems?
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Summary: Do not buy this Rubbish
Review: I have bought lots of stuff through Amazon but never written a review before. However, I want to warn others about this harmful piece of software. If you use it your PC may become almost unusable like mine did. I have a machine with 384MB RAM but, after installing McAfee Firewall, I kept getting "out of memory" error messages and could not launch any software. I checked on the internet and found others with this problem. After ununstalling my machine is working great again. DO NOT BUT THIS RUBBISH
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Summary: Don't use software you don't understand
Review: I have purchased and used McAfee Firewall without any problems at all. I can install it, I can uninstall it, it hasn't caused any problems with any of the programs either I or my husband run (including, but not limited to, an HP scanner, digital camera, printer, nomad jukebox, MS office, chemdraw, adobe photoshop, illustrator, acrobat, etc.). I can access our email information through Arizona State University's IMAP system, a notoriously difficult task, as well as the library and other services available to graduate students, without a hitch. Bottom line is, you have to be able to configure options if you want to use McAfee. If you want something to install and not worry about, Norton is a better option; on the other hand, that means you usually can't configure their products for special use situations, such as school servers. McAfee is a great program because it allows the user to determine what it does and does not do. It allows the user to decide what should acess which inforamtion, and when. Of cousre, that means you need to know what it is saying when you get a notice, and you need to know how to configure it. If you want to be able to determine how much information goes to who, this is the program you want. If you want a blanket protection you don't have to mess around with ever, this is *not* for you. My only complaint is that I wish it were *more* technical in the information it presents in the alerts; I have to bend over backwards to find the technical details I want.
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Summary: Buy a network security book with this software!
Review: I hope you work in networking or have prior experience with firewalls, because, if you don't, you'll have only cursory understanding of this product. They provide no substantial documentation either in the box or on their website. Since I work in this field, I was able to figure it out on my own, but you're probably better off shelling out a few more bucks for 'Black Ice Defender' or 'Norton Personal Firewall'. As for the actual software, it seems to work fine and has most of the standard features for firewall software in this price range. Overall, it's a good package for anyone looking for simple protection for their home systems and will keep all but the serious hackers out.
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