McAfee cause Office application to Hang


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This Started to happend last Thursday after some Microsoft Office and Windows Updates. It seems it's only the Windows XP machines that are affected. Everytime I try to save to a network drives, the application hangs and I have to hard reboot my PC. Someone else is having the same problem as me.

http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=46693

Anyone ran into this?

Thanx

One tip, dont use McAfee. Their products are crap. They used to be good 8yrs ago. Sad to say but Symantec is starting to be crap as well.

The ones I have tried recently and liked is Trend Micro PC-Cillin or AVG Antivirus. I have used AVG for over a year and its fast, reliable, and stopped anything bad that came thru my PC.

One tip, dont use McAfee.  Their products are crap.  They used to be good 8yrs ago.  Sad to say but Symantec is starting to be crap as well.

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:rolleyes: I have been using McAfee since I switched from Symantec three years ago, to each his own but IMO they are not crap :p Eversurf I am not sure what your problem could be, I have two different computers with McAfee and Office and I don't have any problems.....but I am not saving to a network drive does it do the same thing when you save to a local drive?

Well, I have had nothing but probs, glad its working for others...

Try uninstalling and reinstallin McAfee. One of the probs I ran into with the software, when installing/updating windows...McAfee breaks sometimes.

Maybe it isnt McAfee but Microsoft buggy software...who knows

:)

One tip, dont use McAfee.  Their products are crap.  They used to be good 8yrs ago.  Sad to say but Symantec is starting to be crap as well.

The ones I have tried recently and liked is Trend Micro PC-Cillin or AVG Antivirus.  I have used AVG for over a year and its fast, reliable, and stopped anything bad that came thru my PC.

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yes and yes.

McAfee is old.. that is why microsoft (hotmail) dropped them.. and now they are left hangin.

Trend Micro, and NOD32 are suppost to be really really good. i have used both, and i really like Trend Micro (internet) service. NOD32 i wasn't too impressed with.. and symantec uses too much resources.. i am going to drop it very soon.. im getting tired with the lag

it could be a problem amybe with it scanning the network drive and just not being able to scan all of it or something try to disable some options and play around with the options

PS i use the mcafee enterprise 8.0i here and it runs perfect no problems at all and not a resource hog, but if your talking about the home/small buisness mcafee software well thats just plain hog crap dont go near it same with symantec,

mcafee and symanted both exel in the enterprise software

it could be a problem amybe with it scanning the network drive and just not being able to scan all of it or something try to disable some options and play around with the options

PS i use the mcafee enterprise 8.0i here and it runs perfect no problems at all and not a resource hog, but if your talking about the home/small buisness mcafee software well thats just plain hog crap dont go near it same with symantec,

mcafee and symanted both exel in the enterprise software

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yes, even tho they excel in there field.. and what is most important, when people think of a word, Computers, Camera, Operating System, that the person gets YOUR company name, burned into there memory.

If you think of Operating system, the first thing that comes to 95% of peoples heads is Windows (XP, 98, etc.)

when you think of Anti-virus, you think of Norton, and Mcafee (hehe my norton just turned on its auto-scan.. weird huh)

but the best companys, are also not the smartest choice. (except microsoft :p)

i know that norton and mcafee use up way too much resources, but they pretty much go for easy to use interfaces, with a lot of graphics... NOD32, no GUI really.. doesn't hog your resources.. and scans pretty quickly, doesnt have enough audience that knows about them.

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