Does Mcafee suck or what?

I can't believe Dell gave us a three year subscription to one of the worst anti-virus software I have ever used. It slowed my network to a crawl and it has the most annoying notifications that I can't seem to turn all of them off. WTF was dell thinking.

 

Install AVG. Doesn't load your system like mcafee does.

 

Well, I think it's just the fact that I felt liek I paid for it, I shoudl use it

 

See I use McAfee Enterprise Virus Scan, which is not the same crap that they sell to general folk. It works awesome and it is very light on resources, even compared to Avast or AVG.

 

Get rid of it. I've tried it on two different computers and got nothing but grief. Besides slowing your system down, you'll also get an unstable system that is prone to crashing (BSOD) or will not work properly with peripherals.

 

i have no problems with it and havent noticed any system slowdown using it.

 

get NOD32 Antivirus! BEST and lightweight!

 

is it free?

I'm not cheap it on spending money on hardware, but when it comes down to software like AV, I rather have it for free lol.

 

Was it free? How can you complain if it was free? It's like if I gave you a chocolate ice cream cone and you complaining that you don't like chocolate. Just throw it away!

 

um, it's not "free" you pay for it when you buy your three year subscription to their warranty service. Who knows what the real price of it is.

 

3 yr mcafee comes w/ dell care plus thing which acutally is a package deal so it's not free at all.

 

Why'd you buy the Dell Care package? You can buy everything individually, while selecting PC-Cillin as your AV program.

 

I didn't, but I'm guessing OP wanted 15% EPP off the price.

 

It's free if you look in the right places

 

I know my university highly recommends Mcafee over other AVs, they even give it to us for free.

 

You can get Avast and AVG for free, both use less resources than McAfee. Overall, McAfee's a good scanner, but like all the big-name stuff, uses up a lot of RAM.

 

Most of the commercial internet security products from the major brands (trend-micro, symantec and mcaffee) are crap anyway. They still do their job though, but they are a pain in the arse

 

try avira free version. WAY BETTER than mcafee.. and yes its free...

 

I have McAfee Security Center on my Dell 1000 and its works great!

 

It does hog up alot of resources but I have more than enough to spare.

I love McAfee but I feel for you about those pop up alerts...they are freakin annoying.

 

It's a system hog in my opinion but it does get the job done. Currently using the free avira program but lots of false positives get flagged.

 

you can change the hueristics to medium and you will see less fp's

 

McAfee is a crap, I had a virus two weeks ago, I knew it’s a virus but I had McAfee so could not resist to not pressing the exe file. To my surprise first thing that stopped working was McAfee. I could not get it started again and no other antivirus software could install. After new installation of Vista I changed for Kaspersky.

 

Lol, people think antivirus software is an almighty god. Remember: they cannot compensate for stupidity. If you blatantly push on an .exe, twenty thousand AV softwares together cannot stop you.

 

The fact of the matter is that the firewall settings of McAfee does not work well with your browser nor vista. It slows down your network considerably.

 

AV software should delete infected exe before I even push it. I knew it was a virus but what if I did not, av software must know.

 

If you knew it was a virus why didn't you scan it?

 

Only if it has enough time for the scan to get to it. Active scanners are constantly scanning your entire HDD, and if you don't allow it enough time, or if you don't actively scan it (right click), then it won't recognize it.

 

McAfee, Norton ..... all bad.......... try NOD32.. thats the best.. if not Kaspersky.. but very light on system resources and also best at doing what it is supposed to do...Well, these two are paid softwares.. But on the WWW almost everything is free............

 

corporate anti-virus softwares (my school gives out the Symantec Anti-virus), whenever you download a program or execute one, it will automatically scan it first. That's why it's hard to download virus .exe's onto your computer. Now, if McAfee does not do that, then it's a fault.

 

So you knew it was virus. You ran it anyways. Now you're saying your AV sucks.

That makes total sense.

 

What happens with false positives then?
It acts like a virus itself? deleting files without asking?

 

actually, it usually warns you before running it. that's why when you run a lot of "cracks," they get deleted before they even run because they're seen as a false positive virus.

 

When a free antivirus gets better detection rates than a bloatware version, that's the definition of suckage.

Until antiviruses start showing some serious upgrades for their money, i'd stick with a free one. The only one that even comes close to it's money is Kaspersky.

 

be very careful with kaspersky ... you may find you have some major issues later.. read all over he internet how i affects chkdsk with its iswift...i will not go there. and i do admit it has some of the best detection. but the way it tags all the ntfs is imo not good. i have seen a system that now hangs on chkdsk for over an hour..vba is also a great av but not a firewall. right now i seem to favor avira over nod as i have a few issues with the new ess. but they are both awesome. the only 2 i will currently run. f-secure is also a great program but it is a heavy running one.