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1 comments about Panda TruPrevent Personal 2005.

1. I'd been looking at TruPrevent Personal, and when I got a 20% email coupon from Panda, I took the plunge. I wish I'd done my homework first --would have saved myself a HUGE amount of trouble.
   
   After installing TruPrevent, the installer needed to restart the computer. But the PC went into a reboot loop, and just kept restarting itself over and over! I had to intercept with safe mode to get it working again.
   
   Once I finally got the computer to start up, I had lost Internet and network access. This was apparently a known bug with TruPrevent, and Panda had an update on their website -- but if I hadn't had a spare laptop that wasn't disabled, how would I have found that? So, I downloaded the update and patched the software. Although I could access the Internet again, many more problems surfaced.
   
   First, Outlook 2003 was suddenly unable to send or receive email. Also, my current antivirus immediately reported "conflicting third-party software" and could no longer scan incoming email! (Panda claims TruPrevent works with every current AV program.) I began getting random "Page not found" errors when surfing the web, and after a few minutes of being on the Internet, my browser would just stop responding. Also, my bootup time went from 1-2 minutes to over ten minutes!
   
   I searched the web, and found a number of user reviews on download sites, with users having the same problems with this software. Dismayed, I ran Panda's uninstaller to remove it. But it wouldn't uninstall!
   
   The Panda uninstaller went through the process of removing files, then restarted the computer. But upon restart, I had NO network or Internet connection, my LAN card was disabled, and my connections said "Limited or no connectivity"! Even worse: the Panda icon was gone from my system tray, but a number of Panda processes were still running on my PC! And my AV was still reporting a "third-party software conflict".
   
   I desperately sent a Panda Support request. Despite claims on their website that email would receive a "prompt and thorough response," it was FOUR DAYS before I received a reply. And what I got was a complex manual-uninstall procedure that required performing all of the following (in safe mode) just to remove this software:
   -- Downloading a special EXE file from Panda to remove certain components
   -- Manually removing 19 SEPARATE REGISTRY ENTRIES from my Windows Registry
   -- Manually deleting program files and folders (which didn't work because the system still saw them as "in use")
   -- Manually deleting 9 other DLL and SYS files from the system folders
   
   After all this, my computer is finally free of TruPrevent. Immediately after doing all the above, my LAN card works again, my connections are fine, my AV is running normally, my boot time is back down to about a minute, and I can connect to the Internet and my home network again.
   
   If you are considering this program, PLEASE do a little Googling first, and read for yourself the experiences other users are having with TruPrevent -- and with Panda's tech support. I found user reviews reporting the reboot loop, loss of Internet/network, refusal to uninstall -- clearly these are not just isolated problems.
   
   This program may be a good idea in concept, but it REALLY wreaks havoc on your system. My AV program has heuristic detection built in, and I will be sticking with that from now on.

3 comments about Professional Website Promoter.

1. Beware, Don't buy this product called ''professional website promoter''. I just bought this software and had it installed, it asks me for a registration #. You can not use this software without buying a license which is around $300.00. Also the programs in the software cost money to use. Nowhere on the box it says that you need to purchase a license in order to use this product. Its all hidden in the license agreement, but you would never know it unless you opened the package and tried to install it. These people are real scumbags and they havent heard the last of me.



2. This is actually a neutral review, as I have not yet purchased the product, but after reading the first review, I called the company. I had heard that this was a good company and good product. The Customer service rep told me that as long as you have the number provided in the package, there are no extra costs to run this program. If you lose the number, you can call and they will give it to you. There is also a 30 day return time if you aren't satisfied. I would think that if all customers were as disgruntled as the first reviewer, all products would be returned. Apparently they aren't. I hate to see anyone's name smeared needlessly!



3. I just purchased the Wesite Promoter yesterday. Although I am a seasoned web designer, it did help with generating keywords and such and is a very informative tool. As soon as I uploaded my digital scrapbook site, branicdesigns.com/scrapbooking.htm it showed right up on top with google. All those free submits sites never got my site on google at all. It is a great program and very very user friendly. Does not cost anymore to use the program than what you paid for it at the store.

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1 comments about McAfee Total Protection 08 for PC- 3-Users.

1. The latest incarnation of McAfee's Total Protection (version 2008) seems to have gone backwards in time. Nowadays, when the trend is for users to go wireless, McAfee has decided to strip out their wireless network security component from their Total Protection 2008 suite. This component was integrated into the 2007 version, but for some reason now you need to download it from their website and install it independently. THIS IS HOW THE NIGHMARE BEGINS!!!!!!!
   Once installed, the wireless component will then start prompting you endlessly for its own individual registration; but the registration will fail because it conflicts with the registration of the Total Protection suite. Countless hours of non-free (yes, McAfee DOES NOT have free telephone support even for installation issues) have not solved the issue. They instructed me to download and run a special removal tool they have for their software. McAfee's Total Protection does not uninstall itself completely using Windows' Add/Remove option. Then they had me install the wireless component first and then the Total Protection suite, but the same kept happening. They even took over my computer remotely but failed to produce results.
   I have been dealing with McAfee for days now and no resolution has been attained. By the way, this is happening consistently in 6 computers I have in my network. In a time when the computer protection segment of the software industry is getting more and stronger competitors (Kaspersky, Bit Defender, Computer Associates and now Microsoft) than ever before, McAffe is falling on their face. SAVE YOURSELF A NIGHTMARE!!!!!

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