What's up with McAfee?

[zombiejoe]

I like McAfee, because it warns me about stuff. (lol). But there is somthing about McAfee that dose not make sence. When I am on youtube, I skim through some videos and find a thumbnail picture of a video has been replaced by the McAfee logo. It has happend with my videos to. (Or at least on one of them.) So not only do pictures get replaced by the McAffe logo, but I remember playing a game on adult swim, (9,000,000,000 miles from earth.) And one of the pictures that poped up was the McAfee picture. WHAT'S GOING ON!?

 

[Icecoldcynic]

McAfee is a thing of evil. It's probably one of the worst things (other than vista) that you will pay to have on your computer. Free antivirus and antispyware software always do a better job.

 

[r0qu3]

McAfee is a thing of evil. It's probably one of the worst things (other than vista) that you will pay to have on your computer. Free antivirus and antispyware software always do a better job.

uh fail cause they don't...they do an awkward job and are the first to be compromised(just the av, not the free spyware tools, they're fine).
On the other hand McAffee is as Icecoldcynic mentioned is a waste of time and money.

If you want a proper AV get ESET NOD32 its probably the best und most userfriendly outthere.
http://www.eset.com/

Another good alternative would be Kaspersky Antivirus.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

McAfee is a thing of evil. It's probably one of the worst things (other than vista) that you will pay to have on your computer. Free antivirus and antispyware software always do a better job.

The man speaks the truth.

Comodo [http://www.comodo.com/] has an excellent free firewall and virus guard.

Malwarebytes [http://www.malwarebytes.org/] is a wonderful free virus remover.

There really isn't a need to pay for this stuff.

 

[era81]

Turn up your parental settings.

 

[dududf]

Get a free one, if you like it donate 10 bucks or something.

 

[mrjinx]

I had McAfee when I was a wee lad and my PC antivirus was managed by my father. There was no way to turn off the popups in the system tray area. I scoured the options for an eternity and the option just was not there.

Hopefully it's changed sinced then, but I will never use a McAfee product again. I'm sure it works great for virus protection but any application that will minimize a game because of a popup warning, and that has no way to turn it off is the devil. I've been using Avast! for a while now and I don't have any problems, and it seems to use up less system resources as well.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Considering I get better service with the free version of Avira and it only updates it's definitions weekly rather than daily nothing atall.

 

[Laughing Man]

McAfee is a thing of evil. It's probably one of the worst things (other than vista) that you will pay to have on your computer. Free antivirus and antispyware software always do a better job.

All the folk knocking Mcafee are talking balls, those listing alternatives that are better are also talking balls, Mcafee scored just as well as any of the others listed here in recent virus definition tests. Resource wise unless you run some shit heap P3 with 512Mb of RAM then you will never notice Mcafee doing anything apart from the occasional pop up and the guy ragging on Mcafee causing his games to drop to desktop, the setting is part of Windows and not part of Mcfee although in your defence it shouldn't have set it as default to over ride anything else that was running.

Coming next is something most posters here won't recognise, a thing called a stab at resolving the issue the OP has rather than advising he waste his time and or money getting something else that will do just the same job.

As for the OP chances are you have at some point along the way acquired or installed as part of the Mcafee software bundle a program called McAfee Family Protection, it is a part of the Macfee Internet Security programs bundle. This program has options that allow it to edit and block certain images and specific videos. It is designed to allow parents to limit what children can access whilst on the net and as with all their products has the ability for the user to adjust the settings.

Now I can't tell you exactly how to disable it since I don't have the software and well it ain't my problem so I don't need to learn. Hoever having had one or two Mcafee products I can take a rough stab at it. It will be in some sub menu listed as 'blocking' or 'web blocking' within there their will be a scroll down tab that allows you to select the different media to be blocked 'movies' 'images' etc and their should be a check list somewhere that lists the sub category of each of these media 'porn' 'violence' 'adult' etc.

 

[Icecoldcynic]

McAfee is a thing of evil. It's probably one of the worst things (other than vista) that you will pay to have on your computer. Free antivirus and antispyware software always do a better job.

Qualify that statement because frankly sir I think you are talking bollocks.

Think what you want, I'm not the one paying for useless and intrusive software. You can keep using it, it's no skin off my nose.

 

[Laughing Man]

Think what you want, I'm not the one paying for useless and intrusive software. You can keep using it, it's no skin off my nose.

I think you're talking out your backside mate that like many who rag on AV you are requoting something that you have read written by someone else on another forum. So no I am not shocked that you were totally unable to qualify your parrot like statement.

Oh and look here

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/10/antivir-10-others-fail-virus-bulletins-october-2009-test.ars

It's an AV and it does what an AV is meant to do according to this report.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

What's up with McAfee?

EVERYTHING. Go forth and get a proper antivirus such as Kaspersky (being my personal favourite, although recent versions have gone downhill somewhat) or AVG.

I've used various versions of MacAfee in the past, in a similar market approach as Norton they run like crap then put up a fight when you try to remove them.

Coming next is something most posters here won't recognise, a thing called a stab at resolving the issue the OP has rather than advising he waste his time and or money getting something else that will do just the same job.

That is solving the issue.

 

[Laughing Man]

That is solving the issue.

No it's not it's like me saying my brakes on my Ford Spanner keep sticking and someone saying well that cars crap you should buy or get a Vauxhall Elephant.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

That is solving the issue.

No it's not it's like me saying my brakes on my Ford Spanner keep sticking and someone saying well that cars crap you should buy or get a Vauxhall Elephant.

Yeah except when that problem occurs you dont get someone asking you if you'd like a nice new free car in exchange which runs perfectly.
Or are you so attached to your heap of crap that you'll stick with it no matter what?

 

[Earthbound Engineer]

I like McAfee, because it warns me about stuff. (lol). But there is somthing about McAfee that dose not make sence. When I am on youtube, I skim through some videos and find a thumbnail picture of a video has been replaced by the McAfee logo. It has happend with my videos to. (Or at least on one of them.) So not only do pictures get replaced by the McAffe logo, but I remember playing a game on adult swim, (9,000,000,000 miles from earth.) And one of the pictures that poped up was the McAfee picture. WHAT'S GOING ON!?

McAffee is not virus protection, McAffee is virus alert. When I used McAffee (fortunately I didn't pay for it) I had to reformat my hard drive twice because of a malignant Trojan Horse. McAffee did nothing to help the matter besides spamming warning messages at 3 second intervals. If anything, it worsened the matter because while I was trying to locate the file and shred it myself, my windows kept minimizing because of McAffee's warning messages.

Get Norton, or at the least, AVG. Anything but McAffee.

 

[Laughing Man]

Yeah except when that problem occurs you don't get someone asking you if you'd like a nice new free car in exchange which runs perfectly.

You see that's the problem you are under the false assumption that the alternatives you are listing run perfectly. They don't NONE of them do.

So why should the Op waste time uninstalling one program to then go an install another one only to find that it may not work the way he wants. Macfee does the job as an AV as well as any of the others listed, did you read the report I linked? So would it not be better for the OP to resolve the issue he is having with what he has than to start over and possibly have to deal with new problems? It's the same argument as the idiots who jump straight to reinstall Windows instead of solve the issue.

Just to clarify I don't use Mcafee I use Microsoft Security Essentials.

McAffee is not virus protection, McAffee is virus alert. When I used McAffee (fortunately I didn't pay for it) I had to reformat my hard drive twice because of a malignant Trojan Horse. McAffee did nothing to help the matter besides spamming warning messages at 3 second intervals. If anything, it worsened the matter because while I was trying to locate the file and shred it myself, my windows kept minimizing because of McAffee's warning messages.

Get Norton, or at the least, AVG. Anything but McAffee.

Now I could jump in here and pan Norton and anyone who recommends it based purely on the fact that it caused my brother in laws laptop to BSOD when it reached the Windows is loading screen but I am not going to because whilst I know that removing Norton resolved the issue I can;t say if it was a Norton update or a Windows Update or a combination of factors that caused it to happen, what I can say is would you take advice from someone that needed to format their hard drive TWICE to get rid of a trojan?

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Yeah except when that problem occurs you don't get someone asking you if you'd like a nice new free car in exchange which runs perfectly.

You see that's the problem you are under the false assumption that the alternatives you are listing run perfectly. They don't NONE of them do.

Sp why should the Op waste time uninstalling one program to then go an install another one only to find that it may not work the way he wants. Macfee does the job as an AV as well as any of the others listed, did you read the report I linked? So would it not be better for the OP to resolve the issue he is having with what he has than to start over and possibly have to deal with new problems? It's the same argument as the idiots who jump straight to reinstall Windows instead of solve the issue.

Fair enough I didnt read that article, now I have.

You're kidding, right? All that article says is that it's passed certain detection tests, says shit all about resource use, stability, functionality etc.

Format + reinstall is often the safest method of being completely sure of having a clean system if you're not willing to rely on the word of your software that it's sorted a problem out for you (in the case of rootkits, good luck fixing it, better spending your time formatting). But obviously they're 'idiots' right?


Also, "Macfee does the job as an AV as well as any of the others listed", no, it does not.
If you had any experience using various AV software you would know this.


Edit: Norton's complete shite as well, not used a recent version admittedly but if it's anything like how it was a few years back it's about as effective as putting up wallpaper which asks "Please dont infect me, I'm only little".

 

[mrjinx]

Seinfeld said, "What's the deal with McAfee?, sure it requires a fee to use, but why mask it with the Mac at the beginning?, why not just call it A Fee?"

I lied.

 

[Julianking93]

McAfee is proof Satan exists and he's using it to upload viruses and unwanted bestiality porn on your email.

My last computer's mother board was fried because of McAfee. Filling my PC with smit fraud and pop ups, the ****.

 

[Laughing Man]

You're kidding, right? All that article says is that it's passed certain detection tests, says shit all about resource use, stability, functionality etc.

Resource use, bollocks, quad core CPUs and 3 gig of RAM are common place, dual core and 2 gig even more so if you're worried about your AV resource use you got anal issue that no amount of AV will ever resolve.

Format + reinstall is often the safest method of being completely sure of having a clean system if you're not willing to rely on the word of your software that it's sorted a problem out for you (in the case of rootkits, good luck fixing it, better spending your time formatting). But obviously they're 'idiots' right?

What's the point here?

Also, "Macfee does the job as an AV as well as any of the others listed", no, it does not.
If you had any experience using various AV software you would know this.

Yada Yada Yada, again claims against what I am saying yet no qualifying information. I linked a report conducted by people who's job it is to test these things. They tested if the AVs did the job as an AV and Mcafee passed along with some other listed here. Job done.

I am bored with this, no one has actually posted anything other than the usual parrot like diatribe against generic AV scanner listed in topic heading. You can create a topic about just about any AV and chances are you will get enough idiots to post how crap it is and how the one they are using is the best and it will be based on nothing other than some rubbish they read posted somewhere else five years ago and the fact they had no idea how to use the software when they tried it for 3 whole hours 2 years ago.