Mcafee Guard Dog 2.0

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Summary: Guard Dog 2.0 (as part of McAfee Office)
Review: I have used Guard Dog as bundeled in McAfee Office Utilites CD-Rom,(Disc Clean Up,Defragmenting Hard Drive and etc.) if you have these same utilites on your PC ( as part of Windows) then don't by this product,just get Guard Dog, as they can cuase conflicts with existing programs and take up a lot of space( if you only have 32mb of RAM) and if PC is Y2K Compliant/Ready and you don't need E-Mail security(only works if the persons you send mail to have the same security program) then you don't need McAfee Office. The version of Guard Dog that is in this suite of utilitys is 2.0. I have used with some succes but do to some problems occuring in Windows I.E. causing me to have to reload my Ops system from the Mfg.Restore CD I have had to reinstall Guard Dog, because even when not reformating the hard drive I loose parts or all of the program. I have had Inavlid Page fault happen in Internet Explorer after an Illegal Operation occured when during the check up phase of Guard Dog wher you can clean up deleted programs so they can't be recovered, I got an Illegal Operation box on screen, I closed it out and went on with the rest of the check up and reboot of my PC, but when I went to go on the Internet after connecting I could surf do to an Invalid Page Fault occured requiring reloading of the Ops system and IE 5.0 and upgrade from MS web site. I contacted McAfee via thier web site and real time chat with a Tech ansd was sent instructions on to load Guard Dog in safe mode which I not done yet. If you have some other type of Virus Protection Program on Your PC such as Panda Anti Virus Platinum , do not select the virus protection during Setup/Interview portion the Installation process, you will save your self some trouble later on in not having to deal with program conflicts, also if you don't want the GD Slpash Box at start up, uncheck the box for it you willsave time when you start your PC every time. Another thing to do when setting up Guard Dog is to have it do Auto Clean up when you go to shut down your PC intead of being promted to do it each time at shut down.(it will not touch BookMarked/Favorites web site cookies,unless you uncheck them in the cookies section of the program.)This program does do as it says but it does have some problems ,and you can update your version by using the limited version of Oil Change that comes with it(volutary Install prompt).