Sick! Bleah!

Alot of crazy stuff has been going on at work and now I'm sick, hence the lack of updates. Today I'm taking it easy and puttering around the house. My wife gave me her laptop to get her anti-virus straightened out. I had a licensed-through-work McAfee anti-virus Enterprise on there but it was all mixed up with the whacky McAfee 'Security Center' and some other consumer grade Anti-Virus from McAfee that came with the machine. What a piece of crap that 'Security Center' is, it doesn't so much secure you as it acts as a rabid virtual McAfee salesman on your system. Just nasty.

I think I've finally ripped all vestiges of McAfee software off the machine. This was made extra hard because when you go to uninstall the McAfee 'Security Center' it says make sure you uninstall all McAfee programs first, so I uninstall the Anti-virus then the security center uninstall fails because some McAfee DLL is missing, great! I ripped it all out manually, removing services from the registry, cleaning up the reg keys, add/remove programs and deleting the directories. Hopefully when I'm done I'll have just plain McAfee Anti-Virus with out all the useless bells and whistles that caused it to stop working in the first place.