"User" vs "admin" accounts.

I have to agree with his madness.

I've been a "user" only for about 4 years now. It used to be a pain in XP but 7/64 makes it easier as I no longer have to switch to admin to do tasks - it just asks for the password.

To be honest in W7 even the account that you think is admin isn't really in the home versions.

It more of an enhanced user account which doesn't have complete rights over everything.

You need to activate the account if you want to go in and fiddle directly with the sys configuration files to force the sod into doing things the none microsoft way.

I've had this laptop for about six months and recently (a week or ten days) my usually reliable Firefox (25.0) has started to crash regularly.

When I 'restore session' the first page that comes up is a request from McAfee Security Scan Plus suggesting that I update to a paid version (McAfee Total Protection - URL:- http : //home.mcafee.com/Root/Campaign.aspx?cid=81716&ss=3&rid=0&ths=3&trj=0&vir=0&pup=0&v irc=0&trjc=0&pupc=0&webd=1&web=0 ) - no spaces

Any ideas how to purge this 'spam' as I have no intention of buying a paid-for version?

Do I have to (simply?) uninstall McAfee?

It has never been intrusive before but it is annoying me beyond my tolerance.

The shortcut is addressed to C : \Windows\TEMP\nsn9315.tmp\x64 (no spaces) but that says it is 'not valid'.

Edited to add:- The installation date for McAfee Security Scan Plus is 18th October 2013 - I certainly didn't install this willingly, maybe it was bundled with an Adobe Flash update?
Adobe updates Flash against security flaw - but watch out for the extras | Technology | theguardian.com

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I have paid for McAfee for years now and found it to be pretty good.

Recently they have been emailing my sayoing that I am running it on 4 computers and only have a licence for one. I don't have 4 computers !!

WTF :ugh: :ugh:

Why Pay?
 

Avast has never let anything by. I used to use AVG but changed to Avast for reasons that I cannot remember now.

Call me mean but I do like free! I have never paid since viruses were invented.


Regards
Exeng

a couple of possible explanations

1. somebody else is using your license without your knowledge

or;

2. McAfee assumes that many, like me cheat, and load it on other computers without McAfee knowing or paying and they are just taking a shot in the dark that they can get more money out of you.

Since this thread was started by me a while back, I perhaps need to advise that following my posting some 15 months ago (permalink 10), I initiated an uninstall from within Control Panel.

Despite protests from the McAffee site and the program itself, the process seems to have gone smoothly with no trace of the McAffeeism since that time.

Avast was installed immediately and has performed as expected. :ok:

I tried McAffee antivirus for all of about three days before binning it.

My email client was business related, thousands of emails in it much in sub folders.

Each time I would open the email client McAffee needed to scan EVERY email and EVERY attachment in my email client, even after a system reboot it would scan everything and perhaps several times each day.

So upon a start-up or reboot and opening of email client McAffee would get to work scanning for an hour or longer before I could effectively use the PC or send/receive emails, there was no way to deprogramme this function and it wasn't clever enough to realise it had scanned such emails and/or attachments multiple times already.

Thereafter, and ever since, I went with Comodo and it's free.

New computers and junk:

Not the junk per se for me, just the @#$%@#$ messing with the partitions. I want C drive D drive E drive with nothing in C but the OS. I don't mind if there's a hidden partition ahead of C, it is after all, transparent most of the time.

Sony have been fine on this, but HP were a pain. Once I'd got everything as I wanted it, I sadly had to reload the OS from the Recover discs. Yep, One drive and all the crap was back.

I have a copy of 7 made for HP. If I load it without disc 1, all is a normal (licensed - non-OEM ) installation. If I put in disc 1, I get the @#$^%@$. Okay, sound easy, but I have never, ever, been able to get the drivers loaded so have to work around things with Windows-X keystroke. I use it every day, but I just feel kind of defeated.