Is McAfee antivirus and firewall rubbish?

[megalithic 10]

Hmmmmmm, i've seen people say the latest Mcaffee is pretty good, nowhere as bloated as the old product, are you all judging it on it's past record. ?

 

Myself, i'm using MSE.

[anywebsite 10]

Hmmmmmm, i've seen people say the latest Mcaffee is pretty good, nowhere as bloated as the old product, are you all judging it on it's past record. ?

 

Myself, i'm using MSE.

 

Sorry, but MSE sounds like a disease

[stimpy 10]

After five years of using a variety of anti-virus software (One Care, AVG, Norton) and never having any problems I switched to McAfee and bam! Two computer disabling viruses in two weeks.

 

Have I just been unlucky or was I very lucky before or is McAfee just a bag of "good for the roses"?

 

 

I have the same opinion of McAfee.

 

The girlfriends parents bought her a netbook with McAfee....we got it all set up for her and within 30min of browsing the web she had a virus.

Formatted and reinstalled windows, stuck on AVG free and its been fine ever since.

 

.............linux doesnt get virus stuff........

 

Yawn.

Linux is ok but its no where as usable as windows. Linux does get targeted with virus's/malware... you just dont hear about them as people are to busy bashing Microsoft.

Edited March 4, 2011 by stimpy

[jimfdowning 10]

Sorry, but MSE sounds like a disease

 

Funny

 

I love Mcafee gets me loads of work

[sheffeeld 10]

Sorry, but MSE sounds like a disease

 

Haha, it does... but I have never had a virus on all 3 of my machines since using it! Nowhere near as bloated as Norton et al....

[Steptoad 12]

Haha, it does... but I have never had a virus on all 3 of my machines since using it! Nowhere near as bloated as Norton et al....

 

I was just going to ask about Norton, I've got a Norton package.

I'm so p33d off with MCR4PPYI'm going to get rid of it an re-install the Norton.

I was just worried about problems that might arise from unistalling the McAfee, but I'm beginging to think they can't be as bad as the ones I have whilst it's installed.

[Steptoad 12]

Opps I have McAffee. Damn, won't renew when runs out.

 

Make sure you haven't ticked the automatic renewel box on your current subscription then.

[BigDogStudio 10]

Yea it used to be better. Avast is my favorite now all though Norton has gotten a lot better this last year and gone from being very bad to not so bad

[jimfdowning 10]

Norton 2011 seems to be getting better I've had installed on a win7 machine and it picks up everything thrown at it.

 

As for uninstalling McAcrap google the removal tool that will remove all traces of the useless program.

 

Avast is a nice little program and walks all over Mcafee

[Space 10]

Nowhere near as bloated as Norton et al....

 

Norton isn't bloated now, and hasn't been bloated for a few years after they completely re-worked the coding. It's the lightest, fastest and one of the best protection packages available for home users today.

[Jcoventry 10]

Norton isn't bloated now, and hasn't been bloated for a few years after they completely re-worked the coding. It's the lightest, fastest and one of the best protection packages available for home users today.

 

Norton still uses more RAM/CPU than it should, compared to other antivirus packages. And it still installs more files and runs more processes/services than other antivirus packages.

[Grandad.Malky 11]

Very good malware blocking overall. SiteAdvisor toolbar's malicious web site blocking very effective in testing. Includes firewall, remote management, secure deletion. QuickClean module helps performance by deleting unnecessary files; also deletes browsing traces.

 

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