McAfee Anti Virus

[Mike.C]

Hi, has anyone either now or in the past used McAfee anti virus?

I have been using Norton SystemWorks and a number of their other products for years now and i am fed up to the back teeth of it causing problems with half the things i install on my pc. So as AOL are offering a 90 day free trail, i thought i would give it a try.

Cheers.

Mike

 

[gidon]

Mike
I use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise on my work pc and don't have any problems - but then use it mainly for Outlook and Office.
On my home PC's I've used AVG antivirus for years and never had any problems - and it's free for home use!
Cheers
Gidon

 

[gav]

Hi,

We also have McAfee VirusScan Enterprise at work and it seems to work fine.

At home I use avast, never given me any problems and like AVG its free for home use.

Gav

 

[Mike.C]

FREE Now that is a word i like to hear \/ . I will have to go and investigate.

Thanks to both of you.

Cheers

Mike

Oh yes have you got their website address?

 

[LyNx]

We had McAfee on our servers and workstations, total ****

now moved over the AVG and everything is peaceful.

Andy

 

[RogerS]

AVG - without a doubt

Also there are quite a few adverse posts here about AOL.

Roger

 

[mudman]

After McAfee managed to delete millions of valid documents all over the world the other week by sending out a faulty antivirus update, might be worth steering clear of them.

 

[Chris Knight]

I gave up on McAfee when it let a couple of nasties in, moved to Norton for 18 months, gave up on them and am now with Zone Alarm and so far it has been excellent (last 6 months). It is much less of an intrusive system hog than the awful Norton.

 

[Anonymous]

Yep

Our whole university (staff and students) us it without problems

I stopped using Norton in preference to McAfee after I saw the cost of Norton and the system resources it used (and because McAfee is freely available)


In the days when Peter Norton owned the company, they were the best by far. But now...

 

[Mike.C]

Tony wrote:

I stopped using Norton in preference to McAee after I saw the cost of Norton and the system resoutces it used.

Chris wrote:

It is much less of an intrusive system hog than the awful Norton.

I have noticed that and over the last 3 or 4 years it seems to have got worse.

Also along the lines of what Roger said, AOL is one of the most intrusive (for want of a better word) "THING" you could load on your computer. In fact when i had them in the past the only way i could get rid of everything was to completely wipe the hard drive and do a clean install.

"Why did you go back to them I hear you say"

Well as it happens I am completely innocent. You see i went to the US with BT dialup as my ISP, but when i came back my old man (sorry dad) had upgraded me to AOL broadband
To be fair because he did not use the computer back then, he had no idea i had been having problems with them, so in his eyes he was doing me a favour, which really he was.

So it looks like AVG antivirus and Zone Alarm firewall are in the frame.

Cheers

Mike

Cheers

Mike

 

[tibbs]

Just a word of warning about the free version of GriSofts AVG - I came across a situation recently where AVG failed to detect a virus that was within a saved file copy of an email (.eml) whereas a Norton scan of the file DID detect it. The virus wasnt new either - it had been known about in the anti-virus community for 18 months at the time.

Richard

 

[Adam]

Just a word of warning about the free version of GriSofts AVG - I came across a situation recently where AVG failed to detect a virus that was within a saved file copy of an email (.eml) whereas a Norton scan of the file DID detect it. The virus wasnt new either - it had been known about in the anti-virus community for 18 months at the time.

Richard

I also have had AVG miss a virus. I was sorting out a friends computer which was riddled, and initially i thought it was due to AVG not being uptodate. However even after that, it still missed it - I ended up installing some trial version of Norton, which picked it up immediately.

Adam

 

[Alf]

IIRC, when I first switched to Avast! it picked something up that Norton had missed. Are we looking at having to run 2 AVs here? :roll: ](*,)

Cheers, Alf

 

[RogerS]

IIRC, when I first switched to Avast! it picked something up that Norton had missed. Are we looking at having to run 2 AVs here? :roll: ](*,)

Cheers, Alf

I wouldn't recommend it as the way that they normally work is that they hook into the incoming email stream and intercept the emails for checking before they get to your inbox. So having two could cause problems.

Similar problems happen with other s/w manufacturers who add 'featuritis' in an attempt to gain market share. For example, ZA has now added pop-up blocking as a 'feature' to its Pro version but this conflicts with some images on Firefox.

I'm not sure how 'old' the news is that AVG missed a virus or that AV program missed that one - these things have a habit of being remembered long after the event. AVG is still a very good AV program. I seem to remember that there is a security website somewhere that tracks the response time of the various AV vendors to new threats.