I recently installed McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Personal Firewall Plus 2006. Around this time, I discovered that my ATI video card’s control panel, Catalyst Control Center, stopped functioning: it wouldn’t even open.
It turns out that Catalyst Control Center needs access to the Internet, and Personal Firewall Plus 2006 was blocking it, apparently by default. Click [...]
I reinstalled and updated McAfee VirusScan on my mom’s computer today, and made some annoying discoveries. First, the update functionality is implemented as an ActiveX control. Second, the main interface itself (the SecurityCenter) is also implemented with ActiveX controls, cleverly displayed in a disguised Internet Explorer window.
Now, am I the only one who finds it [...]