Thread: McAfee 3 titles for Free

Either way, there are lots of free options out there. No need to part with cash.

we use the enterprise version of MSE for the University called Forefront and it works great. I use MSE at home and it works fine. Of course I also limit my web surfing to about a handful of sites per day that I know are safe so if its gone downhill I haven't noticed. I combine my MSE at home with spybot search and destroy and I keep my system immunized and with its teatimer attachment running it has protected my system just fine. I just looked and MSE is still listed on the Microsoft site of recommended/supported antivirus vendors. Windows 7: Consumer security software providers

I will assume you are referring to the recent "how to geek" article Goodbye Microsoft Security Essentials: Microsoft Now Recommends You Use a Third-Party Antivirus where they bash MSE yet say its fine for the tech savy with decent surfing safety habits but want you download avast instead. They have since released a statement updating that article retracting their claims that Microsoft has given up on MSE.

The short of it, no antivirus is perfect, ever. There is always a battle based on who has the better antivirus definitions from month to month those numbers are very easy to skew. Oh I want product A to win over the others, when would product A score the highest on our matrix...oh right after the newest version comes out and the others haven't updated yet. Yea, so lets do our testing at that time so that product A is the clearly the best....well for a week until the others also make adjustments....but we won't mention that.

No. What I was referring to was a test on the major av clients to see how they performed.

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IMO mcafee has gotten just as bad as nortan... WAAAAAY too much bloat crap running.

I've never had any anti-virus or malware and have rarely, RARELY ever had any issues... And when I do, I handle them myself (usually hijack this nocks them out).

But really, to be honest, the people that do sware by mcafee are usually the ones that come to me with virus toubles though I cannot attest to the number of idividuals who have mcafee and have never had any problems... so *shrug*.

There are FREE alternatives that do, in my experience, trump mcafee though e.g. avira, or avast or... http://alternativeto.net/software/av...tivir-premium/

alright, enough trolling and derailing on my part... I'll leave....

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Norton hasn't been bloated for 5 years now. It's slimmed down and doesn't impact performance. You can customize when and how it scans so no more Interrupted gaming.

People have such a bad opinion because of old versions. Norton now consistently wins Maximum PCs ranking of best protection software now.

Originally Posted by Rumble

Norton hasn't been bloated for 5 years now. It's slimmed down and doesn't impact performance. You can customize when and how it scans so no more Interrupted gaming.

People have such a bad opinion because of old versions. Norton now consistently wins Maximum PCs ranking of best protection software now.

Your damn right I do, almost zero reason I should ever go back to a piece of software whose initial impressions + years of surveying opinion /encountering are crappy.

Especially if the software cost money and there are excellent even free alternatives.


I dunno about the stat you are quoting but I'd wager it's for the average user who is somewhere between Grandma Betty who can't find the power button and the more tech savy user. And only likely because it's a 'name brand' if u told Grandma Betty about the many benefits of x-not-so-common-antivirus over Norton, she'd still probably go with Norton because she's heard of it ( btw, Grandma Betty is fictional user).

Just like most people have a tendency to choose something they've heard over an alternative, even in the face of research.. I forget what it's called, some bias..

So Idk about any stats of Norton. However to Norton s credit they were one of the first anti virus companies to detect that overseas worm that targeted those uranium enrichment plants...


But yeah you u can't blame anyone so still rejecting Norton, especially given that software almost never changes (in similar regards to the argument of whether people can truly change)...

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