McAfee Firewall Plus 2005 6.0
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List Price: $39.99
Features
• CD-ROM
• Safeguards your online financial transactions
• Protects your personal data from online intruders
• Updates automatically to protect against new threats
• Inbound-Outbound Monitoring |
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McAfee Firewall Plus 2005 6.0 Customer Reviews
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Take the time to learn how to use it...
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The complaints from users here show, primarily, that they haven't made a sincere effort to learn how to use the product...
Splash Screen at Start-up:
I, too, wanted to disable this, but instead of complaining that I didn't know how to do it, I took the time to find the answer. Below are the instructions for version 6, on an XP Pro SP2 computer. If you're using a different operating system, these may or may not apply, but give it a try. If you're still using Service Pack 1, then you're just begging for trouble.
1- Right-click the McAfee tray icon (the "M" by the clock)
2- Select "Updates"
3- Click "Configure"
4- Click "Advanced" (...and from there, you'll find what you need.)
Another complaint was about the pop-ups; same thing - take the time to look at the settings, because you can change or disable these, too (by the way, the pop-ups annoying, but they're not advertisements; they're "alerts" from McAfee, warning about new threats, new updates, subscription expirations, etc.). If you want to disable them entirely (you'll get no warnings at all), follow the same steps outlined above, and you'll see the options for the Security Alerts settings. If you only want to see the important alerts ("Red Alerts"), right-click on the M, select Personal Firewall, then Utilities, then click on Alert Settings.
Another complaint concerned AOL not working w. McAfee Firewall. Personally, I would've deleted AOL before deleting McAfee, but that's a whole other issue... Very basically, firewalls restrict things from coming into & going out of your computer. They're usually pre-configured to allow certain essential things to work without restriction, but they can't read your mind. Sometimes, you'll have to tell it what you want to allow & disallow. So if AOL was working before you installed McAfee Firewall, and it didn't work after, you need to tell the firewall to allow AOL access, via the Internet Applications settings.
As for McAfee support, yeah, they're not so great. You're better off going to the Support Forum, where other McAfee users post questions & answers. Just Google "mcafee forums" and you'll find it.
I use McAfee Firewall because it was given to me, but there are better products out there. Do a little research, and if you find that McAfee's is the right one for you (and if you can get it for less than $20), you'll be fine; just take the time to learn the settings. |
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