Ex-Brit
I've tried MVT a couple of times. Whirs away for a bit and then tells me it is unable to check my computer. (What? A piece of McAfee software not working as it should? Shurely shome mishtake, as Private Eye used to say.)
The only reason I can think of is that it expects to find files on the C:\ drive that are actually on my F:\ drive. My boot partition has to be small as I dual boot to Windows 98 still (initially for my daughter's games but my scanner only works properly under W98; we never access the internet from W98 now though) so a lot of folders that traditionally live on C:\ had to be moved elsewhere. Nothing that is dodgy to move if you want Windows XP actually to run, of course.
I also has a follow up e-mail to my on line chat session. I explained that I was not a happy bunny and (as invited) gave a phone number for them to ring. Have they rung yet? You can guess the answer, I think. But judging from the various other threads, they would come back to "uninstall and reinstall" anyway.
Ho hum. Our work computing expert reckons AVG free anti virus and Windows firewall are perefectly adequate for protection at home. But the way things are going I'd probably end up with a messy uninstall of McAfee which would stop AVG working properly!
Looking at the threads with problems, a lot of them seem to relate to people renewing with a new version or upgrading from free. I have traditionally done the former, but last summer I nabbed three months free off a Personal Computer World cover disk, in order to bring the renewal date closer to that for the laptop on which it also resides (without trouble). I then renewed on top of that. None of this should have caused any problems, but I can't help wondering whether it is somehow related.
Adelaide