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Posted by Ron Lopshire on July 30, 2006, 11:55 pm
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> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:54:46 GMT, "Peacekeeper"
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>>That is the downloader trying to update your versions to the newly released
>>vs11 Firewall 9 etc.
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>>A tad painfull on dialup.
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> That's putting it mildly. 18 to 21mb, apparently depending on what you
> choose to install, downloading at anything from 3 to 5k per second.
> And no pointers given. They are offering to install VirusScan,
> Firewall - both of which I have - and something called "Site Advisor"
> that I've never heard of. All this in order to update VirusScan, which
> is the only thing that I've been given an update notification for.
>
> I've been through several updates requiring reboot before - but never
> anything like this.
>
> If you or anybody have any advice, or can point me to any, I'd be most
> grateful. I've had no success accessing the McAfee chat line.
Perhaps you can piecemeal the downloads, for a little less pain.
McAfee Upgrade Center
(http://us.mcafee.com/root/upgradecenter.asp?cid=11536)
Safe Surfing: McAfee acquires MIT startup SiteAdvisor
(http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/consumer/2006/20060403_050000_q.html)
SiteAdvisor
(http://www.siteadvisor.com/)
(http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie_learnmore.html)
Ron :)
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