Amidst dire warnings of
catastrophe, my McAfee computer security ended today. They’ve been threatening
it for weeks, ever since I bought this new Lenovo computer, because it was
cheap, sort of. Apparently, Lenovo and McAfee are in cahoots, since McAfee
always claims Lenovo recommends them. Some forgotten number of weeks of McAfee
security came with the purchase of the computer.
But almost every day,
sometimes more than once a day, every day, there arises a popup telling me that
some dastardly but vague evil entity will take my first-born child and all my
hopes and dreams, via my computer, if I don’t pay up. [The price keeps
decreasing, I guess as an incentive to get a recalcitrant like myself hooked
in.]
And the only available
responses are, “Yes, charge me for security I don’t need, since Microsoft
builds in its own security system, Windows Defender, into its computers,” or “Accept
Risk,” you moron.
To make it worse, they
themselves hold my computer hostage. The popup won’t close until I have
responded to it. I can’t do anything else on the computer until I have responded
to the McAfee popup. I guess that’s an
example of what will happen if I don’t pay them, but it doesn’t work with me,
because…
…I do not like to be
bullied or manipulated. On those rare occasions when I look at Facebook, if
some post says “I’ll bet nobody will ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ this picture of…a
wounded veteran… a cute puppy… a child with cancer…” I refuse to Like or Share,
even though I’m an advocate for wounded veterans and cute puppies and children
with cancer. If you’re supporting wounded veterans because you’re manipulated
into it, that’s not support.
It has occurred to me that
McAfee himself obviously knows how to stop my computer, since nothing will work
until I have responded to his popups. So, if you don’t see anything here next
week, you’ll know what happened, because I’m going to keep putting stuff on
this blog to show McAfee my computer still works, even without his security.
Wait a minute. I stopped
writing… and I refuse to be manipulated into anything…
…but I’m writing stuff on
a computer blog because McAfee tried to manipulate me into computer security…
just to show McAfee I don’t need his security…
…there’s something backward
going on here…
John Robert McFarland
Another one popped up just
as I finished typing this.
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