McAfee is the bane of my existence. It is constantly being updated and with every update something else gets screwed up.
My philosophy about these big software and tech companies is that everyone who works there has to justify their existence. To do that they have to make some sort of a change that ultimately gets installed as part of the program. All those little parts do nothing but bog down the machine.
As someone who is a lifelong gamer I remember a game that used to be available on many bulletin boards 30 or more years ago. It was called LOD- Land of Devastation. In this post-apocalyptic survival program you started with a laptop. As you progressed through the game you would find discs that you could add to your computer that would provide information and help you advance through the game. As you find more and more discs you finally find one that explains what caused the world to be destroyed/engulfed in nuclear fire. The culprit was Windows. As Windows grew larger and larger finally man rebelled and tried to destroy the all encompassing program that ruined everything. I really enjoyed that game which had almost no graphics but was fun to play because it involved strategy.
Other games that I absolutely loved were the Infocom games Zork I, II, III; Enchanter, Sorceror and Spellbreaker; Deadline, Infidel, Witness, Planetfall and many others. These were text adventures which you had to read and discern the environment in which the game was taking place. The world in these games was in three dimensions and you had to visualize that in order to work your way through it. I love those games.
I'll never forget reading an interview with Sally Ride, the brilliant physicist and astronaut. In that interview she talked about how she loved playing the Zork trilogy. Specifically she spoke about Zork I and that despite playing the game for almost two years she had not found but 12 of the 19 treasures. That statement gave me hope because I had found 14 of the treasures. I figured if a smart lady like Sally Ride could play a game there was no harm in me playing a game.
