As a Comcast subscriber, I can use McAfee virus scanning and security products for free. This is a great idea from Comcast, and I appreciate having the usually reliable McAfee software. It sure beats the clunky and intrusive Norton security software.
This week, the McAfee tray app began pestering me about a major upgrade. Yesterday, I installed the free upgrade (VirusScan 11), and everything went smoothly.
Except that I stopped receiving email.
I use Outlook to access my email via POP3, rather than IMAP, because Outlook's IMAP support stinks. I emailed my email host provider to see if they were having issues, and they mentioned that they had several calls from people who had just upgraded McAfee. It appears that the upgraded McAfee VirusScan 11 decided to block all of our incoming POP3 email.
Fortunately, my mail provider handles virus scanning already, so I opened the new McAfee security manager app and disabled the email virus scanning option. And whaddya know, I started receiving email again.
I hate to complain about free software, but… how annoying.
