OT: McAfee Internet Security 5 causing slow clock..Anyone else having a problem?

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Perdita X. Dream

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!) 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?

Thanks
 
Cara Perdita!

As YOU have written elsewhere:

"Well, ****ing good for you, eh? And what possible value
does that statement have other than absolutely **** all?
 
Cara Perdita!

As YOU have written elsewhere:

"Well, fuc*ing good for you, eh? And what possible value
does that statement have other than absolutely **** all?

--
Perdita X. Dream"

As ye sow, so shall ye reap!
--
Hope this helps!

Pat Garard
Australia
 
Cara Perdita!

As YOU have written elsewhere:

"Well, fuc*ing good for you, eh? And what possible value
does that statement have other than absolutely **** all?

--
Perdita X. Dream"

As ye sow, so shall ye reap!
--
Hope this helps!

Pat Garard
Australia
 
Hi, Perdita.

I have two suggestions. The first one you won't like: Use Norton Internet
Security. It includes both Norton Antivirus and the Norton Personal
Firewall. They've been protecting my WinXP Pro installation - including
Office XP Pro and Publisher, and TV on my computer with my ATI All-In-Wonder
card - for a couple of years now with no hassles. (Years ago in Win95/98, I
let the entire Norton suite run in the background; with WinXP I configure
Norton more carefully.)

The second suggestion is to use a time server. Many are available,
including many free ones. I use Automachron, set to automatically update my
clock whenever I start Windows and every hour thereafter. Google finds
145,000 hits on "time server".

I've never run anything from McAfee, but I've seen more complaints about
them than about Norton, even. ;^{

RC
 
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