No McAfee

February 19, 2007

Posted By:  doomlord52

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I think everyone agrees here. No McAfee. i cant unistall my copy because it will take all my settings for the Microsoft firewall with it. That includes my outlook settings, internet, and just about every program. Why cant i say "no McAfee please"??? is it really that hard? use Norton....

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  • Mar 28, 2008     Comment Link

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    Posted By: doomlord52

    @ dell_admin10 merged? With what? (i've been gone for a LONG time.) Also, this request has been around since 2-19-07, not 2-17-07. :D
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  • Nov 22, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: lindahewitt

    We have been telling Dell this since 2-17-07. I guess the only thing that Dell will pay attention to is when customers start returning their brand new computers because they have all of this junkware installed on it, which the customer stated they did not want. This includes Norton and McAfee. The customer ought to be able to state explicitly what they want installed (such as OS, Office) and Dell needs to honor these requests. If they don't, then they can deal with the consequences of either businewss going elsewhere or returned merchandise.
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  • Nov 20, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: premcv

    LOL! But no vote? Wonder why!
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  • Nov 20, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: cosh

    Interesting..... dell_admin10 thinks it's a "great idea" to get rid of McAfee. Well done, well done.
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  • Nov 20, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: dell_admin10

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    @adreka: This is a great idea, but like the community has suggested it is a duplicate. This post will be merged with the original http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62270.
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  • Nov 20, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: ernliz

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    Ditto. One of the first things I did when I received my new XPS 410 was to uninstall the MacAfee AV suite. Symantec is worse. There are free AV, firewall, etc., programs out there that are Vista compatible and not as resource intensive.
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  • Nov 20, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: premcv

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    Duplicate! The original is here: http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62270
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  • Nov 20, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jmxz

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    McAfee's prefered for some people, though - and no matter which one Dell picks it'll offend some. I think better would be if Dell let us choose which AntiVirus vendor to bundle. http://ideastorm.com/article/show/66022/Let_Customers_Choose Personally I'm perfectly OK with MacAfee if they pay Dell enough to subsidize the hardware more than their competitors.
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  • Nov 20, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: adreka

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    Having just purchased a new laptop from Dell with Windows Vista and McAfee installed I was very dissapointed to discover that browsing certain websites was extrememly slow. After quite a bit of troubleshooting I discovered that the phishing filter in McAfee was conflicting with the phishing filter in IE7 which is included in Vista. Having switched off the filter in McAfee the problem has been resolved. I have subsequently discovered that it seems to be a common problem with Vista and MacAfee yet Dell are still supplying the software together.

    I am lucky that I am an IT professional so had the necessary skills to troubleshoot the issue but your average user would find this issue very frustrating and I wouldn't be surprised if they are claiming their new purchases are faulty and are requesting them to be returned.

    Please stop providing incompatible software!
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  • Aug 27, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jmxz

    @lindahewitt: "Would they put a crappy hardware component, which is prone to frequent failures in their computers? " I thought the "yes" answer to this question is *THE* key innovation Dell had in contrast to IBM and Apple who seem to sell more solid but higher cost hardware. Dell's success for many years was similar to Microsoft in that they both observed that the market for inexpensive lesser-quality computing products was actually much larger than the market for high-end expensive ones.

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