Probably because mcafee doesn't do 'silent' updates and wants you to log on before it installs updates? How often do they install the updates when they have to go looking for them? I'll bet not very often.
If it's on the Links bar in IE they don't have to look very far.
we don' turn it off - we buy a new copy. :) (Often free after rebate.) The problem is that people are used to paying once for software and don't want to pay for a yearly subscription. Maybe you should put one of the free scanners on instead?
How about the busy people that don't have time to shop for free after rebate or those like me that don't do rebates any more than they have to because they don't get half of them. I bought 2 sticks of memory at CC & come to find out in the small print that the rebate was only for 1 stick of any memory size which is ridiculous since many mombos require 2. This little details was buried in the fine print & not in the ad anywhere.
college kids don't have time and don't really care
Why should they when they can download mp3s instead.
Time and time again we've seen what happens when users are expected to keep updated - they forget.
When one forgets their seat belt many times they get tickets. Guess what? Eventually they learn to wear their seat belts unless they have a vehicle that has automatic seat belts. Gee, I wish the car would start as soon as I sat in the seat too because I don't have time to find my keys. I suppose one just has to make time for the important things.
So don't register with McAfee & download the updates via the ftp instead or use wget as I posted earlier. Better yet run it from a script that runs when Xp starts up.
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