Pc-cillin 2003 Software

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First, (and most annoying), it totally destroys my web access on a daily basis. IE, Netscape, even Outlook are killed by some kind of bug in this software (possible glitch with the integrated firewall?). The funny thing is, I didn't even install the firewall portion. (I have a hardware firewall). In a nutshell, my browser goes haywire. If I don't lose access completely (to both the web and e-mail), I get misdirected all over the web, based on my history. For example: if I click to go to Google, I'll be re-directed to ESPN. Most times, the pages just refuse to load. However, I can ping and trace from a command prompt just fine. A reboot usually clears the problem, but it's still very annoying. I have never experienced anything like this until switching to PC-Cillin. My other computer, (on the same network and going through the same firewall), has no Internet access problems whatsoever. ...P>Another thing I noticed is that my computer takes much longer to start up and shutdown.

Last but not least, I don't see a significant improvement in resource use ...

Now, a review wouldn't be fair without at least touching upon the positives. Although I'm not crazy about the activation process (I'm just an activation hater, period), I do prefer PC-Cillin's update process .... PC-Cillin scans my computer in 5 minutes... However as good as these pluses are, they don't outweigh the negatives.

I noticed these same problems with the trial version, but excused them as possible side-effects of uninstalling ...without reformatting. (There were some troublesome ... files still lurking after the "uninstall" that were wreaking havoc until I manually uninstalled them) However, the full version was installed on a totally clean, newly-formatted drive, so there are no excuses. Disabling all real-time scanning tasks is not an option, because my computer is constantly exposed to disks from school, work, or wherever. I plan on just giving it away (probably to someone who ticked me off lately...