resolving norton mcaffee internet conlicts

miesse2 · 06-13-2008, 12:12 PM

I have Win XP and a cable modem. I have various prorams from norton and macaffee on my computer. Updating Mcaffee caused internet conlicts, unresolved by comcast trouble shooting software and reconfiguring software. Advice?

**simpswr** · 06-13-2008, 12:19 PM

Hello . . and welcome to the forum . .

You are using the two most troublesome and resource intensive programs known to nerdkind . . . Combine them, and yu have a nightmare on your hands . . as you are finding out.

What specific applications are you using?

miesse2 · 06-13-2008, 12:36 PM

I have been using Norton 2003? firewall and Mcaffee's anti virus 2004 (from Dell) all originally sorted out by an Insight cable tech (now comcast). Everything was fine until I downloaded a Mcaffee update from AOL which required a reboot. reboot cut off internet config. Norton's GoBack would fix it temporarily until service interrupt reboots started the circle all over again. Now we have ran out of GoBack options.

wrench97 · 06-13-2008, 02:35 PM

I think both of those programs are out of date and should be upgraded. If you want to stay with norton look at norton internet security 2008 (it does seem to less of hog than earlier versions)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832108334
or AVG free or Avast anti-virus.

06-13-2008, 12:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
miesse2 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	resolving norton mcaffee internet conlicts I have Win XP and a cable modem. I have various prorams from norton and macaffee on my computer. Updating Mcaffee caused internet conlicts, unresolved by comcast trouble shooting software and reconfiguring software. Advice?

06-13-2008, 12:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
simpswr Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 4,453 OS: XP, Vista	Re: resolving norton mcaffee internet conlicts Hello . . and welcome to the forum . . You are using the two most troublesome and resource intensive programs known to nerdkind . . . Combine them, and yu have a nightmare on your hands . . as you are finding out. What specific applications are you using? __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Spyware Cleaning \| How to Post a Screen shot \| PC running slow]

06-13-2008, 12:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
miesse2 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Re: resolving norton mcaffee internet conlicts I have been using Norton 2003? firewall and Mcaffee's anti virus 2004 (from Dell) all originally sorted out by an Insight cable tech (now comcast). Everything was fine until I downloaded a Mcaffee update from AOL which required a reboot. reboot cut off internet config. Norton's GoBack would fix it temporarily until service interrupt reboots started the circle all over again. Now we have ran out of GoBack options.

06-13-2008, 02:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
wrench97 Tech Hardware Team Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3,409 OS: XPSP2	Re: resolving norton mcaffee internet conlicts I think both of those programs are out of date and should be upgraded. If you want to stay with norton look at norton internet security 2008 (it does seem to less of hog than earlier versions)http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832108334 or AVG free or Avast anti-virus.