McAfee Security Center

April 26th, 2007

Being an avid blogger, I would like to exercise my huge influence over this internets by publicly declaring how much of an idiot I am for installing McAfee SecurityCenter, which is perhaps the worst piece of software I have ever used.

I’ve been a happy user of AVG Anti-Virus and Sygate Personal Firewall for quite a while but seeing as I got given a 12-month subscription to McAfee, I thought: "Hey, you get what you pay for" and promptly installed it. 

And there the problems began.

  • The time it took for the computer to load was about 20 seconds extra, compared to the previous setup.
  • McAfee failed to work out which IPs were on my local network and I had to spend an evening working out why file/print sharing was no longer working.
  • Every time I turned on the computer, McAfee told me that the Privacy Service had updated and telling me to restart the computer. If I agreed, I would have to wait for the computer to boot up twice before actually managing to get any work done.
  • After an update, McAfee broke and popped up with the error: "Application resources could not be loaded successfully. Please reinstall McAfee SecurityCenter."
  • An uninstall gave "An error occured whilst uninstalling McAfee SecurityCenter." Clicking on the "Close" button caused the uninstaller to crash.

I’m back to AVG and Sygate now, and the only positive outcome of installing McAfee was managing to waste the money of my ISP who provided it to me.

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6 Responses to “McAfee Security Center”

  1. # Rambleon 26 Apr 2007 at 9:58 pm

    Obviously you’ve never used Sony software.

  2. # Nickon 27 Jun 2007 at 4:17 am

    Application resources could not be loaded successfully. Please reinstall McAfee SecurityCenter

  3. # Speedon 20 Sep 2007 at 2:57 pm

    hi i have had the same problems as you:

    After an update, McAfee broke and popped up with the error: "Application resources could not be loaded successfully. Please reinstall McAfee SecurityCenter." An uninstall gave "An error occured whilst uninstalling McAfee SecurityCenter." Clicking on the "Close" button caused the uninstaller to crash.

    please tell me how you stopped the error messages and how you uninstalled the product from the pc, again it was a stupid freebie provided by sky broadband- my isp.

     

    thanks for all help you are able to provide.

  4. # Speedon 20 Sep 2007 at 2:58 pm

    oops forget to mention my contact email in the previous message- email me at speed42@googlemail.com thanks

  5. # Kalaon 31 Mar 2008 at 4:32 am

    Hi. i just got the same problem as you however my computer, a different one than i am using at the moment, is frozen. i move the mouse and it won’t move so i can’t exit out of the pop ups and therefore cannot uninstall the program. have any suggestions?

    Thanks, Kala

  6. # Alisonon 11 Oct 2008 at 6:10 pm

    We are having the same problem you have listed on your blog about the error message from McAfee after an update. The error box is annoyingly popping up repeatedly. I’ll close out of it, start to go about my business, and it comes back within seconds. How did you get yours to go away?

    Thanks,

    Alison

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