McAfee Internet Security 5 causing slow clock - anyone else having problems?

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Perdita X. Dream

If this appears twice here, or I've multi-posted, I apologise - I hit send
before I added extra groups.

I am running the above on the following system

2700+
1GB RAM
300GB hard drive (220 GB free)
Radeon 9700 Pro
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Ex
Sony DRU-510A
XP Pro

Here's the scenario: - Windows installed clean on NTFS partition. The only
other thing installed at this point is Office XP (I run the 2003 Beta on
another partition). Installed IS5 and didn't notice anything amiss until I
missed something I wanted to watch on telly (OK, it was Futurama, any
tittering shall be responded to by a quick slap around the facial orifice
area! ;o)) and when I said missed it, I mean missed it - my clock had lost
½-hour in 4! I immediately uninstalled IS5, and did a repair installation of
the OS, at which my system was restored to its former state and the clock
was losing nothing more than a couple of seconds every few days. Decided to
risk it again (I just wanted to see if that was really the problem) and
reinstalled IS5 - and the issue immediately returned.

Called McAfee who denied the issue existed and, of course, immediately
passed the buck and said that it must be a Windows issue and that IS5 wasn't
fully compatible with XP (so why list XP as a compatible OS on the box
then?!). I then perused these groups and found it to be an issue across all
MS OSes, not just XP. McAfee still don't want to know.

I bought this because I thought it was the lesser of two evils (I refuse to
let anything Norton-related anywhere near any system I own due to its
complete incompatibility with MS Office and, in particular, Publisher). I
also recall that, in days of yore, NAV had an issue where its Live Update
service would interfere with the system clock and cause slow down, and I
thought that it may be an issue with McAfee too, but I've disabled LU and
the problem persists.

If I cannot get this resolved (and it's looking highly unlikely), what are
people's favourite choices for AVP/firewall?
 
I've run NAV with Office2k Pro/Win2K pro for some years, with no issues,
other than in early years, an issue with scanning outgoing mail.
I note frm other posts that there has been an issue with McAfee, at least an
app.update, which some people have managed to overcome by not installing
some of the 'extras' that com with the app. I believe worm tools etc.
David
 
Perdita,

I have seen clock problems on my Win 2K - Office 2K machine with McAfee, but
did not even think of a connection to McAfee until your post. So, I
appreciate your posting.

On another machine (WinXP Pro - Office XP Pro with Publisher installed
separately), I have experienced no problems of any sort with NAV 2003, the
clock or other applications - as long as NAV's Office Plug-In is turned off.
In particular, Live Update works like a charm. I realize that with NAV,
people either love it or hate it - just thought to add my two cents.
 
Peptic X. Ulcerous, after realizing she doesn't know as much as she tells
everyone, babbled:
If this appears twice here, or I've multi-posted, I apologise - I hit send
before I added extra groups.
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Hey stupid shit...how many groups is it okay for *you* to crosspost to, but no
one else? Friggin' POS hypocrite.

Joh N.
 
Cheryl said:
Perdita,

I have seen clock problems on my Win 2K - Office 2K machine with
McAfee, but
did not even think of a connection to McAfee until your post. So, I
appreciate your posting.

On another machine (WinXP Pro - Office XP Pro with Publisher installed
separately), I have experienced no problems of any sort with NAV 2003,
the clock or other applications - as long as NAV's Office Plug-In is
turned off.
In particular, Live Update works like a charm. I realize that with
NAV, people either love it or hate it - just thought to add my two
cents.
Click to expand...
I like F-Prot from Frisk on the Windows boxen. The personal version is
only $30usd and you get a site license, not per seat, and there isn't
any fsking activation as in the new NAV 2004. F-Prot isn't as
user-friendly as NAV or Mcafee, but you're not one that needs your hand
held. As for a firewall, I use the free one from Sygate and the boxen
are behind a router doing NAT.

Malke
 
Perdita X. Dream said:
If this appears twice here, or I've multi-posted, I apologise - I hit send
before I added extra groups.

I am running the above on the following system

2700+
1GB RAM
300GB hard drive (220 GB free)
Radeon 9700 Pro
Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum Ex
Sony DRU-510A
XP Pro

Here's the scenario: - Windows installed clean on NTFS partition. The only
other thing installed at this point is Office XP (I run the 2003 Beta on
another partition). Installed IS5 and didn't notice anything amiss until I
missed something I wanted to watch on telly (OK, it was Futurama, any
tittering shall be responded to by a quick slap around the facial orifice
area! ;o)) and when I said missed it, I mean missed it - my clock had lost
½-hour in 4! I immediately uninstalled IS5, and did a repair installation of
the OS, at which my system was restored to its former state and the clock
was losing nothing more than a couple of seconds every few days. Decided to
risk it again (I just wanted to see if that was really the problem) and
reinstalled IS5 - and the issue immediately returned.

Called McAfee who denied the issue existed and, of course, immediately
passed the buck and said that it must be a Windows issue and that IS5 wasn't
fully compatible with XP (so why list XP as a compatible OS on the box
then?!). I then perused these groups and found it to be an issue across all
MS OSes, not just XP. McAfee still don't want to know.

I bought this because I thought it was the lesser of two evils (I refuse to
let anything Norton-related anywhere near any system I own due to its
complete incompatibility with MS Office and, in particular, Publisher). I
also recall that, in days of yore, NAV had an issue where its Live Update
service would interfere with the system clock and cause slow down, and I
thought that it may be an issue with McAfee too, but I've disabled LU and
the problem persists.

If I cannot get this resolved (and it's looking highly unlikely), what are
people's favourite choices for AVP/firewall?
Click to expand...

Hi
I have always had good luck with Sygate. You can download a demo and test
for free.

http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
 
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