I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: to all intents and purposes installing McAfee Anti-virus software is pretty much as bad as getting a virus. There, I said it. Again. I’ve lost count of how many problems I’ve had with customer PCs over the years where the root of the problem was McAfee in one or another of its hideous incarnations. But here’s one that’s fresh in my head because I’ve only just sorted it out… A customer had a PC that wouldn’t connect to the iTunes Store in iTunes. He could do everything else with iTunes, just not connect to the store. Actually, now I think of it he probably wouldn’t have been able to use the internet radio stations in iTunes either. He could access the internet and send/receive emails just fine. iTunes just refused to play ball. When I ran the Diagnostics in iTunes I got an error –3221. Well what could cause this? Probably a firewall I thought. The customer had McAfee Security Center with VirusScan and Personal Firewall. They also
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