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Is Mercury still retrograde? If so, I know why last night went the way it did. I goofed off until about 9, watching Project Runway (bad Keith, no donut!), then I went upstairs, got online, and got an alert from McAfee Security Center that I should download their latest upgrade. So I did, and tried to install it. And it deleted my old version of AntiVirus and Firewall, and then refused to install the new versions. Nor would it give me back my old ones.
I got in the queue for their online chat help because I refuse to pay for (aka can't afford!) phone help, and waited for an hour for someone to come on and help. Finally got a tech, and after some back and forth he decided my old versions must not have uninstalled correctly so he had me download some programs that were supposed to do it right. I dutifully ran all four of them and rebooted after each one, then tried to install the program. Still wouldn't work. So I ran all the programs AGAIN (rebooting 4 times), manually deleted the McAfee file the instructions told me to try deleting, changed my default browser to IE (!!?? they said that could make a difference though I can't imagine WHY) and tried again. This time it actually did install Security Center, but it's pretty useless as it only installed the SC shell, and not the AntiVirus or Firewall. When I tried to download those separately, I ran into the same issue I'd had before.
By that point it was well after midnight and I was beyond frustrated so I gave up and went to bed. I'll have to mess with it more tonight. Then after I finally got to sleep, my cat Riku, normally Mr. Standoffish, was in about 8 times meowing and waking me up to pet him and cuddle him. Which was sweet, but damn it, I wanted sleep. I had a horrible time getting up this morning and was five minutes late to work, which I hate. Gah.
I got in the queue for their online chat help because I refuse to pay for (aka can't afford!) phone help, and waited for an hour for someone to come on and help. Finally got a tech, and after some back and forth he decided my old versions must not have uninstalled correctly so he had me download some programs that were supposed to do it right. I dutifully ran all four of them and rebooted after each one, then tried to install the program. Still wouldn't work. So I ran all the programs AGAIN (rebooting 4 times), manually deleted the McAfee file the instructions told me to try deleting, changed my default browser to IE (!!?? they said that could make a difference though I can't imagine WHY) and tried again. This time it actually did install Security Center, but it's pretty useless as it only installed the SC shell, and not the AntiVirus or Firewall. When I tried to download those separately, I ran into the same issue I'd had before.
By that point it was well after midnight and I was beyond frustrated so I gave up and went to bed. I'll have to mess with it more tonight. Then after I finally got to sleep, my cat Riku, normally Mr. Standoffish, was in about 8 times meowing and waking me up to pet him and cuddle him. Which was sweet, but damn it, I wanted sleep. I had a horrible time getting up this morning and was five minutes late to work, which I hate. Gah.
