PeaSea Update
Aug. 1st, 2006 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqRemoving all traces of McAfee turned out to be less painful than I had been expecting. I killed all of its various processes in msconfig and rebooted before I performed the un-install, and it went seamlessly. There are probably a few DLLs and registry entries lingering about, but I think it's safe to say that my laptop can be certified effectively McAfee-free.
I celebrated by installing the free versions of ZoneAlarm and Avast. This contrasts to Kerio (paid) and AVG (free) on my desktop system. I used to run ZoneAlarm on my desktop system, but I dropped it some time back because it conflicted with my new anti-virus program of the day, and because it was a resource hog. So far this version of ZA appears to be behaving itself, so I'll let it run for awhile.
I'll clear out a bit more pre-installed Dell crap today, but otherwise I think this little computer is ready for prime time.
I celebrated by installing the free versions of ZoneAlarm and Avast. This contrasts to Kerio (paid) and AVG (free) on my desktop system. I used to run ZoneAlarm on my desktop system, but I dropped it some time back because it conflicted with my new anti-virus program of the day, and because it was a resource hog. So far this version of ZA appears to be behaving itself, so I'll let it run for awhile.
I'll clear out a bit more pre-installed Dell crap today, but otherwise I think this little computer is ready for prime time.
