KINDA OT? I'm starting to hate McAfee

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- Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
  
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17 years ago

Sat, Dec 9, 2006 3:53 PM

While I was in the hospital my not-so-dear hubby installed a 30 day free trial of McAfee and nuked my Norton on *my* computer! Now I can't get into a free pattern on the Quiltmaker site. I even removed the Parental Control in desperation. Does anybody know how I can get this nasty McAfee to let me view the pattern??? This is the link that gets me an error message-

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I could get into anything with my old Norton- which he deleted. grrrrrr!!!

A Frustrated Totally Non-Techy Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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- Polly Esther
  
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17 years ago

Sat, Dec 9, 2006 4:28 PM

I copied and emailed you what I think you would need. Actually, you can for the most part ignore their pattern and do it to suit yourself. It doesn't really matter what the widths of the strips are - so long as their sum equals the blank blocks - which are not blank at all. The trick is to have the outside strips in Very constrasting colors to get the effect of two different picture frames going on. I have the entire pattern printed and will be happy to scan and send it if that's what it takes to baffle McAfee. I've made this one many times and have enjoyed it in many variations. Polly

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- Kathy Applebaum
  
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17 years ago

Sat, Dec 9, 2006 4:56 PM

I can't help you, but I share your frustration with McAfee. I had a computer once that shipped with the trial version, and it took me hours and hours to deleted that *&$^%@@ program. The next computer I bought, I told the company if they dared to put that program on, I'd ship the whole thing back, and it might not arrive in one piece.

That said, I'm no fan of Symantec (Norton). Their business practices and customer relations leave a LOT to be desired. Which really fries me, because with all those 'bots installing spam-spewing software, it's really important that people have good virus/spyware/malware protection. I'm getting about

5,000 pieces of spam a day at the kayneyquilting dot com domain (that was NOT a typo), a large majority of it coming from the spambots that people don't even know are on their computers. *sigh*