No comments about BitDefender Antivirus 2008 - 2 Year/10 Pc's.

5 comments about Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Upgrade.

1. Quite simply this software does not work, and I've been using other versions of FrontPage since it first came out--check out the Microsoft web site--they have loads of 'fixes' for this software. None of the web component functions work, and neither does shared borders. I can't imagine that they would continue to sell this.



2. I read some of these reviews and I must say that 2002 is so deep I think I feel into a hole. As far as the software being difficult, I spent considerable time in the library with some great books. I also bought some books, visual being the best and worked with the software. I took my first order for a web site while I was still learning and let me tell you forms just beat the living hell out of me. What I did was to look at some of the preformed pages of front page and looked at the html andlearned how to use tables with forms and learned even more.
   
   I use front page every day with my ebay items and it is a very professional presentation.
   
   What a wonderful powerful program. I literally have no problem with this program. I don't use the microsoft templates anymore as I make my own using microsoft photodraw v2.
   
   Someday I guess, as I get better I will take some courses in dreamweaver, which I understand is difficult. But Microsoft Front Page 2002 was a piece of software that I was able to challanage myself. Truthfully it is maybe 100 hours of learning and practice, but it is well worth it.
   
   Good job Microsoft, hey, did I say that? In the end if you buy this and think it will be an easy learn, forget it. It is web design. Difficulty is moderate, but you must focus and practice to learn this software.
   
   Take command and get and learn front page, find a good host and boom you are in with a professional website for your business.



3. I started off with FrontPage 97... and gradually worked up to FrontPage 2002. I used to think FrontPage was a godsend, boy was I wrong. Things only work if using MS Internet Explorer for a browser, or just plain doesn't work if your ISP doesn't support it's extensions.
   
   I now use Macromedia Dreamweaver. However, between using FrontPage and being able to afford Dreamweaver, I used a nice product by some folks with a funny name. A product named "HotDog Pro" made by Sausage Software! Funny tho it may be, their software is nothing to laugh at! It is a GREAT product, and costs A LOT LESS than MS FrontPage!
   
   http://www.sausage.com/products.html



4. Microsoft Office FrontPage 2002 delivers on its title's promise -- it is a real solution for creating and managing Web sites. Although I began using FrontPage only from this version, and in 2007 -- when Expression Web and SharePoint Designer have already "hit the road" -- is still is a great program. First and formost, you don't have to perform the tedious problem of coding HTML (HyperText Markup Language) -- instead you can enter what you want the browser to display, like in Microsoft Word. Then, you can easily add hit counters and other Web components. As a "special edition", my copy included some bCentral eCommerce Web components, that make managing a business Web site easy as pie. Therefore, I doubt the popular belief that you can't manage a business Web site with FrontPage. Next, adding scripts and other Office documents is easy -- you don't have "call" the script from the server -- actually, you don't even need a server to do this at all! Instead, you can add or edit scripts in the HTML view, in Microsoft Script Editior, or in Visual Basic Editor. Finally, publishing Web sites is easy with FrontPage -- you don't have to publish everything, but instead, you can simply choose what you want to publish. I probably will be upgrading to neither Expression Web nor SharePoint Designer. But I certainly will upgrade to Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 sooner or later. Microsoft says that Expression Web is for professionals, and SharePoint Designer is for businesses, and that FrontPage is good for neither of these. But as I found out, FrontPage is good for both.



5. 
   After learning some HTML on my own, and struggling to set up my first Web page, I came to appreciate FrontPage 98. Later, I upgraded to FrontPage 2002. Microsoft had a winner in this affordable, easy-to-use Web page design tool.
   
   I use it exlusively to do all of my Web site design these days. It has a few quirks, and is not always as intuitive as I think that it should be, but, hey--it sure beats doing markup manually!
   
   I like it!

5 comments about McAfee Total Protection 2007 - 3 Users.

1. This is the worst software I bought.
   
   First,it cost $100 and McAfee did not honor the $55 rebate because I sent the rebate form a little late. They had only 15 days to send out after purchase while compusa receipt has much longer deadline to send our rebate form. Isn't that kind of trick?
   
   Second and most important, it slowed down everything, not a bit but by dozens of seconds or even more than 1 minute.
   
   Third,the speed is not only the problem, its wireless connection sucks to the maximum and a couple of my machines can't get online and can't connect to the network. I have 3 PCs and 1 laptop. Only two machine can get connected. It also conflicts with Belkin network card driver which has been so popular for so many years. How the hell McAfee did not know that adaptor?
   
   Fourth, there is no manual whattsover and you have to all figure that out yourself. Given it has so much problem it's very frustrating to configure it. Sometimes the security center is downloading forever. Who the hell knows what it is doing. Sucks.
   
   I had spent so much time to fine tune it and it still sucks that much. I changed back to Internet Security Suite which is much better than this. Don't buy it even they give it to you free or you will break the disk.



2. I bought Mcafee total protection back 5 months ago and I love it. I bought it because of an article I read on PC world online who tested and compared it to other protection suets. Mcafee scored highest in cleaning all the ad ware and malware with a really good virus scanner and did great on all the other tests as well like root kits Trojans key loggers etc etc. I use to try all kinds of protection for my computer and a lot of them didn't work well with each other needless to say I did a lot of formating. With total protection I have all the tools I want in one package. I love how I can ban IP addresses. I baned 5 IPs the first week trying to hack into my computer. I had no trouble downloading it but I did save to disk and installed from there.I am also a gamer I play a lot of games on my comp like eq eq2 wow gw lotr online and vanguard. So far it hasen't bothered my comp as far as slowing it down much. I cant tell any difference from my other internet security suets. My comp didn't play vanguard very well though I will have to admit but most people were having trouble with that one to many bugs. My comp is an alien ware with an amd athlon 64 processor it has 2 gigs of ram with a radon x800 pro graphics card. Not that great any more lol. Any way I will have to give total protection a 4 star rating as I do really love this protection package. I would give it a 5 star rating if it didn't cost so much to call support however I have found the help files very useful in the Mcafee interface. this program is best I have had so far.



3. While I had McAfee (41 days, total), it slowed Internet speed to a crawl. But that's not the worst of it. I had this product for about three weeks before it killed Internet accessibility completely. It took another week to receive system restore disks that I had to order from my PC supplier. Then I called to cancel my subscription. The customer service rep at McAfee repeatedly told me that because I'd kept the contract for more than 30 days, I couldn't receive a refund. We bandied about for over 10 minutes, the rep declaring that neither could he, nor could anyone help me receive a refund - nothing could be done. Then I discovered the password of, "I'd like to speak to your supervisor." The immediate response was, "please hold, while I transfer you to my supervisor." I did get my refund, but be wary of this product, and its customer service.



4. Great product!! Easy to install and setup. I've had it on 3 computers for 8 months now and its great for network, internet and wireless security. Dose not slow down your computer like many other internet security products. Very secure and easy to use.



5. I have always depended on McAfee for computer security. Total Protection 2007 does what it is supposed to do - protect my computer from all types of problems.

5 comments about Norton 360 5 User.

1. I bought the 5 pack version and loaded on my computers. After 3 days the internet had "dns errors" I then followed instructions and turned off the firewall. My internet still did not work. I then called a computer specialist to come in who restored my system until before Norton 360 was installed. Now the internet works fine. DO NOT BUY!!!



2. i have this product, got it for $60 and its as if i have no protection at all. Besides the 15 hour scans it runs at 100% capacity every month, there is not much stopping a virus from getting to you. I got one, and surely anyone else can too. Doesn't even let me scan a single file. DONT PURCHASE!



3. I purchased this package with overnight shipping. Instead I was sent a 3 user pkg. Amazon then sent a replacement package...another 3 user package. When I complained (8 days after start of purchase...) Amazon offered to let me keep the 3 user package worth $69.99 for 20% off the $129.99 price!!! Sound like a good deal?



4. I tolerated Norton last year for a whole year, it slowed down my computer, blocked access to common websites, and generally took allot of work. Besides the anti virus software the extra componants are mostly built into Windows already. When I upgraded to 360 a few weeks ago I lost access to my bank's secure website. It took me two hours to get a chat tech support, days after my email request went unanswered. They finally sent me a special program just for removing the program. After running the uninstall I was instructed to reboot. That was the last time I used my computer. Now when I try to reboot I get an error "autochk program cannot be found skiptted autocheck" immediately followed by a BLUE SCREEN error. Windows XP won't even boot up in safe mode now. I talked to Dell tech support, spent 10 hours of work time trying to fix it, and now am on hold waiting for Norton - Symmantec expensive tech support. I have called twice now, the first time the line was disconected after holding for 1 hour, now I've been on hold for 1:35 and still no person. Why pay to get a blue screen error. I thought I was paying for security.
   
   Norton: spend a little more on your software and support and less on marketing.



5. 
   I am very satisfied with this product, but I all ready knew it was good because this is just a replacement. I just hope Norton keeps on producing such fine products for computer users.

5 comments about McAfee Internet Security 2005 7.0 [Old Version].

1. This is one of those rare times that I wish Amazon had a zero star rating. I'm a big fan of VirusScan and bought this to upgrade. The Personal Firewall Plus and Privacy Service cause my system to lock up and the internet access to go away. I've spend hours trying to diagnose and fix. If you put in the time to remove the McAfee programs, you can get back to where you were.
   
   Long story short: This product does not work. Please do not buy it.



2. I find this software effective, much easier to use and more user friendly than others of its kind.



3. Mcaffee is crap. I bought a brand new cd of it & it had compatability problems with my old expired version. there are no actual human beings you can talk to unless you want to spend $3 a minute on phone support. Their e-mail support is a crappy automated response system that never addresses the problem. And then when you try to install a better security system (like Trend Micro), you can't uninstall Mcafee completely and it interferes with the new install.
   
   Beware!



4. After installing Mcafee security center, my machine was much slower. I used taskmanager to see what processes were slowing the machine. It was mcafee. Mcafee was eating up 30% of the cpu just with the machine sitting idle. Uninstalling the software is more difficult than getting rid of any virus. Real crap.



5. I bought it, it worked. It came time to renew and it gives me annoying pop ups.
   
   I clicked through and tried to send money, and their web site says "page not found".
   
   I call, I wait. I give up. I call, I wait, I give up. The expected wait time says "two minute wait". I wait an hour, no answer. I call back. I finally PAY my secretary to just sit on the phone waiting. Finally a person who speaks broken English answers. She says she can take my credit card, I say "where are you?". She says Phillipines, and I say "I'd rather not give my credit card to someone in the Phillipines. Can't I call the United states?". She just hangs up on me!!!
   
   I've spent almost a whole day of accumulated time trying to purchase an update. I send a half dozen emails, no answer. Nada, not one.
   
   What a bunch of bums. Now I have software that won't update, I can't find a way to spend money with them without giving a stranger half-way around the world my credit card number. Even if I want to do that, it takes an hour or more to get someone. Worse yet, I get constant annoying pop-ups telling me I need to renew.
   
   Hey you dummies, make it easy and I will renew. Please don't repeatidly try to force me to do something you won't let me do!!!
   
   Tom

5 comments about McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 [Old Version].

1. I purchased this for remote installation at my brother-in-law's location in another city. After remotely connecting, I removed the previous installation of McAfee, completely purging all McAfee remnants from the XP Home OS. I then installed this suite of programs.
   
   McAfee apparently did not install correctly...there were apparently portions of the suite that did install. To make a long story short, McAfee (probably the firewall) blocked all access to those things it though were "dangerous" ... this unfortunately included all access to the web through DSL or dialup, and also included many of the XP utilities including System Restore. So it couldn't even be restored to a previous good state. Since there was no Internet access possible, I couldn't access the system to do any repairs. My brother-in-law is not a computer-aware person and there was no way to talk him through using msconfig to take out McAfee services. So, it cost him a small bundle to have a tech come to his apartment and repair the install. Plus he's out the $40 for the McAfee package.
   
   I have since remotely installed Avast AV and enabled his Windows firewall so he's protected. The McAfee will make a nice coaster, I suppose.
   
   Hope this helps someone...this suite does work on some systems but it's generally so big and so system-invasive that it has, IMHO, a high probability of failure on installing. I put it in the same bin as Norton's package...they appear to both be bloatware which causes system problems and slow downs except on pretty clean OS installs.



2. I am a Comcast customer like some others here and downloaded this product as an upgrade to the McAfee I already had through them. BIG Mistake. I just hung up after being on the phone with their tech support for 1/2 hour trying to uninstall it. My computer had been badly messed up for several days before I came here and saw that I was not the only one suffering these problems. I realized that it was the McAfee program after reading the other reviews here. Trying to get assistance from them was quite painful too. What a mess!



3. I purchased McAfee Internet Security Suite for 2 years in a row and had no problems. Hopefully I'll make it through the year so I can buy another brand when my subscription is up! It took me 2 hours to figure out that all 70 some items disappeared from my Outlook Express inbox because of bugs in McAfee. (It was a quick fix though.)



4. I am able to install and use the McAfee suite as a free download from my ISP Comcast. On two machines running XP, this new version installed fine and has not caused any issues. We recently bought 2 new identical Dell laptops running Vista Home Premium. I installed the McAfee suite on both. On my wife's machine, it has run fine although it does slow the machine down considerably when it is doing something. These machines are no slouches - 2GB RAM and Core Duo processors. On my machine, it constantly churns and reduces the PC to unusable it is so slow, CPU usage runs near 100%.
   I have put both machines side by side and verified the settings, programs, hardware etc. are IDENTICAL on both so I have no explanation for this behavior on one machine and not the other. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it 3 times now, and run the McAfee removal tool (available as a download from McAfee) to ensure a clean install. Using the Process Explorer program (similar to Task Manager), I watch as various parts of the McAfee suite kick in and gobble from 40-100% CPU time even when the machine is sitting idle.
   The bottom line is that if you are running Vista, you should probably look elsewhere for your security needs- as you can see many others have experienced slowdowns to the point of reducing the machine to an unusable paperweight with this product. Luckily I have no expense incurred!
   Update 12/28/07: I finally gave up on this product, uninstalled it and went to the AVG free antivirus. The McAfee suite would not hog the cpu if I would hibernate the machine and brought it back up, but if it was powered off or restarted the same old behavior returned. I tried to run the manual virus scan, it ran for nearly 4 hours! And this is on a new machine with relatively few files. Once I uninstalled it, I ran a full scan with AVG which took 39 minutes. Maybe the 2008 version of McAfee will be improved......??



5. McAfee Security Suite has computer-jacked my computer! I totally hate this product and I've used McAfee for years. Terrible, terrible. When it is scanning or checking my computer, it slows everything else down to a snail's pace. Opening other websites or writing email is extremely frustrating when McAfee is doing its thing. Quite frequently, it knocks me off the internet. It's like someone else has taken control of my computer. I am going to get this nightmare off of my computer. I want my money back!

1 comments about KeyloggerPRO - Keystroke Logging Software.

1. I purchased this product in January. I could never get the program to email the logs or to ftp the logs. I am VERY experienced at computers. When I called customer service, I was placed into a voicemail loop. I'd get so far and find myself back at the main menu. This happened over and over. There is no live chat support, even though that is what they call it. The program is very unstable and often doesn't appear when the correct keys are entered.
   
   I had to reformat the hard drive that contained the program and went back to the site to redownload the program and enter my existing serial number. When I entered it, I was told that the serial number was not valid.
   
   So...to sum up
   1. The product doesn't perform as advertised.
   2. The customer service is non-existent.

No comments about Adobe GoLive 5.0 Windows.

4 comments about Adobe FrameMaker 7.0.

1. If all word processing/desktop publishing software worked this well, the world of writing would be a better place. It's not perfect, but it is as close as any piece of software I've worked with in the past 23 years of doing word processing and desktop publishing.

   With tremendous power and rock solid performance, FrameMaker 7.0 does everything it claims to do. The user delineates what it needs to do and FrameMaker does it. This is such a remarkable improvement from MS Word that our tech writing department has a whole new upbeat, can-do attitude that everyone who works with us has noticed. Need for your document to have complex numbering? FrameMaker does it with ease, grace, and accuracy. We got four days of in-house training and have sailed forward with grins on our faces.

   This is excellent software, worth every penny we paid for it and the training. If you're tired of fighting Word templates and numbering problems, if you just want your documents to behave, if you're tired of Word "helping" you behind the scenes, FrameMaker can change your desktop publishing world from hell to heaven.

   If you just need to do simple documents and brochures, get WordPerfect. If you need the power to produce documents more complicated and complex than that, get FrameMaker.




2. I've been using FrameMaker for about 6 years, and each release just gets better and more reliable. I've been using version 7 for about a year now, and it has never crashed once, nor has any document become corrupted or unusable. That may sound like faint praise, but after years of using Microsoft Word and having large documents suddenly forget where chapters begin or having numbered lists re-number themselves nonsensically, I SO appreciate FrameMaker's stability. I've made manuals of over 400 pages with FrameMaker with never a problem that wasn't of my own making. This software is just really SOLID and RELIABLE and great for doing large documents. I'd never go back!



3. This is a review of the Windows version.

   Framemaker is a really good product for complex layouts and unusual page sizes. So for newsletters, fancy foldout marketing pieces, and non-standard size manuals, it really does a nice job.

   As for efficiency for just getting your word processing done, I have to give it a firm thumbs down. Also, you can really tell this product was not originally developed for Windows because so many of the standard shortcut keys and features are simply not present. I give you the following examples of inefficiency:

   Ctrl+Z to undo can undo only one time. Unfortunately, I'm not perfect enough to consistently only make one mistake at a time.

   In tables, the only way you can select an entire row or column is to drag your mouse. If you are in one cell and want to move to the next row but the same column (the cell immediately below), you have to either tab over until you get through the current row or else get your mouse and click the cell you want.

   There are some buttons on the toolbars that have no equivalent on the menu bar. There is no way to assign your own shortcut keys to various functions you might use often.

   If you want to resize a graphic, but only know how wide you want it, you can't simply enter the width and then have it calculate the length in order to maintain the same aspect.

   It's all these seemingly small things that in actuality, when implemented properly, can really increase your efficiency so that you can focus on what's important: writing. For the price of this product, I would really like to see them pay more attention to things that you really need on a regular basis instead of focusing on features you might use perhaps twice or less within a book. They really need to get the basics down first instead of just adding bells and whistles.




4. FM is a life saver for long documents. I've seen more corrupted Word documents than I care to remember. FM is fast, stable, and versatile. Its weaknesses are typography and colour management.

   What it offers over Word:
   Stability, table styles, inline graphic placement options, sideheads, runin paragraph styles, independent and outline numbering systems that always work, graphics library (reference pages), conditional text, variables, complex headers and footers, straddle heads, ability to pull in photoshop and illustrator files directly.

   What it offers over InDesign or Quark:
   Numbering, table styles, inline graphic placement options, sideheads, paragraph styles that can straddle columns automatically, variables, equation editor, footnotes, various automated lists.

   Yes, the keystrokes are left over from its Unix heritage, and there is only one level of undos. There is a learning curve, but for long documents, it has no peer. Ventura is not as stable, and LaTex is too complicated. I wouldn't recommend it for making a newsletter, but for long and technical documents with numbering, tables, cross-refs, etc. it is a wonderful program.

No comments about Cache & Cookie Washer For AOL & Compuserve 4.0.