G
Guest
Guest
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)
Had to set up a machine for a 90+yr old relative today, and hit upon a
problem with McAffee...
She was an existing customer of McAffee and her licence had just run out
on her old 120Mhz clanker of a machine.
McAffee will not allow her to register for the free trial on the new
machine unless she changes her email address, and disabled the virus
checker as soon as she went online and it tried to register itself.
Apart from that, Dell machines are nicely set up and ready to rock, this
just seems like a strange omission - surely they could set something up
with McAffee and have a flag to indicate that the install is on a new
machine and to bypass any previous purchases that may have expired...
Surely a better way would be to leave it enabled, but prevent it from
being updated ?
--
Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email
--- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) ---
Had to set up a machine for a 90+yr old relative today, and hit upon a
problem with McAffee...
She was an existing customer of McAffee and her licence had just run out
on her old 120Mhz clanker of a machine.
McAffee will not allow her to register for the free trial on the new
machine unless she changes her email address, and disabled the virus
checker as soon as she went online and it tried to register itself.
Apart from that, Dell machines are nicely set up and ready to rock, this
just seems like a strange omission - surely they could set something up
with McAffee and have a flag to indicate that the install is on a new
machine and to bypass any previous purchases that may have expired...
Surely a better way would be to leave it enabled, but prevent it from
being updated ?
--
Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email
--- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) ---