Additionally, McAfee (through personal experience) is notorious for letting
a plethora of nasties into any given machine, even with the paid versions of
their AV program. When you call the PC's support staff, they tell you to
contact McAfee's support staff, and they will connect locally to verify that
there is, indeed, a bug in your system. They will then attempt to charge you
to remove the bug(s) even if you JUST paid the subscription. This has
happened to me at least four times now in the past two years. 

After removing McAfee, installing any number of free AV programs along with
additional anti malware, adware, and spyware programs, the conditions do
improve dramatically.

Removing bugs is, in some cases, a long and daunting task. Persistence will
yield the results you are looking for so don't give up hope. I'm not the
only one that has a somewhat less than respectful opinion of McAfee's
products.

Good luck...

Dean Kiley

 

 

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The only reason computer makers put AV programs on new machines is for
financial consideration. 

You're under no obligation to keep it, and many would say you're better off
without it.

The decision is yours.

A system restore should have no affect on progarms in use prior to the
restore date, so something else was going on with your son's computer.


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