Firewall!
I had yet another annoying reminder this week from Mcafee telling me that I needed to pay up another £60 sharpish to renew my security centre subscription for a year. Having been messing around with linux over the past few months (Kbuntu in particular) I decided to go on the prowl looking for decent free alternatives to avoid forking out another 60 notes.
I have now uninstalled Mcafee (not that easy please read my useful Top Tips guide on my main website) and installed four separate programs…
Although it is difficult to cover every nook and cranny having looked around the net and read various reviews I think (and I hope) that I am covering as much as possible. Oh and I had better mention that I am behind a hardware firewall as well just for good measure as I don’t believe you can always rely on software alone as unfortunately many viruses aim is to switch off such security products!
Will I ever move away from Windows totally? Well maybe one day I do use Dreamweaver most of the time and that to be honest is one of the reasons why I am still using windows, then again perhaps I should be looking at a Mac and perhaps using Wine Tools to run Dreamweaver on Linux…. Watch this space!
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