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by Anonymous User on Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 06:14:22 AM PDT

While the story may be a repeat of the same old thing, the fact that it is a repeat tells you that it's a systematic problem and not just a random bad experience. I have used McAfee products with success for a number of years and have continued to annually upgrade it for "free" when the rebates and store discounts equal out to $0. However, with each upgrade, I've noticed more requirements in registering, more CPU cycles competing with me getting work done and more download time slowing my dial-up. So when I recently bought two new computers (a desktop and a laptop), both preloaded with "trial" versions of McAfee I decided to punt on going that route and uninstalled McAfee and installed Grisoft's AVG products. So far I've been pleased and likely will upgrade to the paid version at some point. Without these repeated postings from contributors telling their horror stories, I probably would have just taken the "easy" route of going with the pre-loaded products.

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