FS2K4 vs McAfee

[town]

I increased the memory in my machine (to 1Gb) loaded up my UK terrain software, turned my firewalls off and tried to play my flight sim online on the "Zone". Everything looked okay then I got an error (low on virtual memory) then another one regarding McAfee (I can't recall what it said), then McAfee pretty much gave up the ghost and "expired" my license. Any one else had any problems like this?

[ozzy72]

I've never tried on the Zone with FS9, but virtual memory refers to disk space.

Ozzy

[garymbuska]

I do not use the zone, and would never shutdown my firewall for a game. I hope you meant you opened some ports for this. Just the other day while I was using IE and at the Better Crocker site when my norton virus protection detected a worm when I checked the log I found out that a trojan horse spy ware program was responseable for this. Now you would never think a site like this would have such a thing which goes to show you you can not trust any site any more. I am not sure how this got there I can not image the owner of the site put it there. SO moral of the story do not ever shut down a firewall for any reason whie on line.

[town]

I don't think the zone is the problem, I believe there has been some kind between conflict between FS9 and McAfee. I think the virtual memory thing must be a red herring as with 1Gb of actual RAM you should need very little virtual memory. My main question is has anyone else had any conflict problems between McAfee and FS9.

I have pinged an email off to McAfee to see if they know of any issues and if any relevant information comes back I will post it so that others may avoid this somewhat frustrating occurance.

[eno]

How much space is left on your HD? ......... If its too little then that will cause symptoms as you have described.

[town]

Eno

It's a 180Gb hard drive, the machine itself is only 4 months old and has just the propriety Windows software plus digital camera printer and flight sim (CFS2, CFS3 & FS9) software. thats about it.

[Brown]

I had a problem on the zone my window or chat window would turn dark and took a long time to come back so I just connect with Zone and then closed all of the windows by pushing the windows key next to alt and ctrl .

[jubjub47]

I use McAfee and FS with no problems.  

[Ivan]

If you want stutters, get McAfee
If you want a virus-free machine and good customer support, get McAfee

[town]

McAfee did not get back in touch so I have dug around a bit more and found the FS9 dosen't recognise that I am on the internet, so I did an IPconfig.exe and got this result:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner>ipconfig.exe

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

       Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:

       Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
       Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.XXX.54.249
       Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.XXX.0.0
       Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

PPP adapter {F76B0C3B-51D9-47EC-966F-51EC94180BCD}:

       Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
       IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.XXX.103.157
       Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.XXX.255.255
       Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.XXX.103.157

(I put in the X's)

I think this is because my computer has a 56k modem and a broadband modem.

Could this be causing my problem and if so how do I redirect FS9 to the right modem?