Thread: Do you trust McAfee

Few days ago McAfee caused millions of computers go offline; problem was McAfee software thought of a program as virus which wasnt a virus, and that caused restart the computer over and over again.

Even McAfee website was down for about 6 hours, so people couldnt get help online.

This is not the first time this happened.

I personally think McAfee is faster then Norton. But its buggy as it seem to be from these incidence.

How about you, do you trust McAfee

I personally dont see need to pay for virus protection, when so many free and good ones out there, but this has been discussed several times, so search the forum to find many points of view!

mcafee makes system too much slow how ever its good one its better to you node32 or avast macafee is best for server machines

I have only used Mcafee once and frankly i would not use it again. It really slowed the machine down and i was also hit with a nasty virus. I think it cost me approx £49 and i had to bin it 2 months into the 1 year subscription to make room for a more effective solution.

Nope. That's why we run all Linux and Mac machines at my house. No virus protection needed.

naver i just trust on Nod32 i use this last few year its Good for me and Safty every thing

i tried mcaffe. i get a second opinion from an it guy who recommended me microsofe essentials. My laptop didnt count any worms ...good stuff m essentials

It was a good product but I personally found it to slow browsing. I don't know maybe my unit is slow too cause of large files stored.

I should hope that McAfee is safe if Bank of America offers it to online banking customers. McAfee had a blip on the screen that has shaken consumer confidence. But they are in the protection and security business. Their jobs and livelihoods depend on keeping your computing environment safe. What happened is scary but not enough to consider them untrustworthy. They regrouped rather quickly and responded appropriately to the "virus" problem. I expect that they will come back stronger than before with lessons learned under their belt.

I am using Avast from last 4 years, and I am happy with that. It gives full protection to system and also complete automatic updates.

Everyone has a preference. I have used mcafee in the past. Like others have said I actually think it slowed my system down a lot. I haven't used it since then, which has been a few years now. I don't know if I could say that I would be 100% confident with any anti-virus software. Someone actually has to find or report a virus, then they have to check it, come up with the protection or detection, test it, and update their virus database. From the time they identify one and update the software from what I've read varies considerably from one anti-virus program to another.

Avast won my trust

McAfee has had too many problems. On some machines it even kills the Internet connection until McAfee is removed. It's an odd bug that crops up sometimes.

AVG Free is a simple free program that doesn't have many bugs. Just be sure to disable daily scans if you use it or the computer will run a bit slow. Without daily scans it's actually rather un-intrusive and doesn't waste resources. It's better to just manually scan weekly or monthly on your own.

Avast is good for performing a pre-boot scan which is helpful for removing infections that are "hooked" into system files and can not be removed while Windows is running. The only issue is the pre-boot scan does not work with 64-bit versions of Windows.

Computers in the company I work for all use McAfee so trust me when I say you are better off using a free AV like avira.

I tried McAfee but its not that satisfied one. There are other alternative are avail also.
Right now I am using Microsoft Security Essential.

Yup, it is one of the best anti-virus presently in market
The only thing I don't like about mcafee is that it makes your system slow !!

Used to but not anymore... There are many stronger anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-malwarebytes that are more effective than mcafee...

I used it for a week but not impressed by results

As for me for protecting mac i prefer use ProteMac NetMine.It's firewall help protects my mac from viruses attack.

Well I personally don't trust any anti virus anymore except AVG, it's free, virtually no bugs (as of yet) and does a brilliant job.
Avast, norton and macafee are just motherboard eaters :c

Originally Posted by Manic Monkey

Well I personally don't trust any anti virus anymore except AVG, it's free, virtually no bugs (as of yet) and does a brilliant job.
Avast, norton and macafee are just motherboard eaters :c

For what time period do you use ut?

Originally Posted by Moroko

For what time period do you use ut?

well I've tried them multiple times obviously and on different Pc's just to be fair
I didn't start off not liking them, they just threw so many issues at me and over time I guess about 2months per program.

McAfee comes up with other features also like Firewall & Worm killer.
I use Avira for last 2 years and it keeps my system on fly.

This one is really great I really like this.. Actually you all have shared very good things.. These are really amazing..

For a Windows machine, it's tough to beat Microsoft Security Essentials. Free, not bloated like McAfee or Norton, and updated all the time.

its so heavy and make system just hanged so I just trust on Avast. that is really too good I m using since last couple of years and have no complains.

Symantec endpoint protection all the way!!

McAfee leads the market, however, I prefer Avast.

Originally Posted by Caterina

McAfee leads the market, however, I prefer Avast.

Actually Symantec (Norton) leads the market, and has been holding over 60% of the market for some years now.

i had used this for a month but not satisfied wit the results...

of course i trust McAfee.I am using it in 2 years.and i am satisfy to use it.

I trust McAfee because i use it in long time and i am satisfy to use it.