Annoying message from Mcafee Personal Firewall Plus

[surfdoc]

I got a copy of McAfee persomal firewall plus when I purchased my Dell and now my subscription has run out. I keep getting a pop up in the right lower corner of my screen reminding me to renew and have to constantly check "keep doing what I was doing". So my question is: Do I need this part of the software that they want 60 bucks for? If not, how do I get this message to stop coming up several times daily?

[FouTight]

remove the program totally. christ, windows XP comes with a firewall that will do as good as that crap.

Furthermore, I run into more problems with customres running this program and accidnetly blocking their own internet access. what a PITA this is.

[surfdoc]

Can I remove it without affecting my antivirus software?

[benfranklin]

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Can I remove it without affecting my antivirus software?

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Remove it all and get Avast. (http://www.avast.com/) It's free. And better.

[ChipWrecked]

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Can I remove it without affecting my antivirus software?

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Remove it all and get Avast. (http://www.avast.com/) It's free. And better.

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Word.

Keep using the XP firewall, though.

[SinCityGuy]

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remove the program totally. christ, windows XP comes with a firewall that will do as good as that crap.


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Windows Firewall is an inbound firewall only, i.e. it offers no protection against outbound attempts at connections by malware that infiltrates your system.