McAfee antivirus

jozsefkoma · Post by **jozsefkoma** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:19 pm

I changed my operating system today and I found on a CD with some drivers an antivirus called McAfee.

It was on the original drivers cd for my computer and I didn't knew that XD

Anyway, I want to ask if it is a good antivirus or not.
Please response.

tyteen4a03 · Post by **tyteen4a03** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:27 pm

It's average. I don't like it, but if it's free I suppose it's OK.

yot yot5 · Post by **yot yot5** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:58 pm

I use AVG free. It works very well.

jdl · Post by **jdl** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:08 pm

yot yot5 wrote:I use AVG free. It works very well.

I've used AVG for maybe 2 years, and it rarely ever picks up any viruses, I wouldn't recommend it.

This is my second year using Mcafee and I say it works VERY well. The real-time scanning is great and removes anything that shouldn't be there.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:36 pm

McAfee can be a real resource hog. Installing it on a weaker machine can potentially slow things down to a crawl. Otherwise, from what I know, it's a good antivirus.

Sammy_P · Post by **Sammy_P** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:09 pm

Muzozavr wrote:McAfee can be a real resource hog.

So THAT'S what is slowing down MOFI!

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:39 pm

The combination of McAfee and the RelevantKnowledge spyware/adware/whatever that is somehow resistant to McAfee slows down all the systems in my computer class to an absolute CRAWL. The CPU usage can go to 100 at times and stay there for almost a whole minute.

MyNameIsKooky · Post by **MyNameIsKooky** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:26 pm

I had RelevantKnowledge once. I easily disabled it via registry editing.

jdl wrote:I've used AVG for maybe 2 years, and it rarely ever picks up any viruses, I wouldn't recommend it.

I command it to scan often and it seems to work pretty well.

Qloof234 · Post by **Qloof234** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:38 am

The only Anti-Virus software I use is the Microsoft Security Essentials stuff. Considering my alternatives are Kaspersky (which isn't fantastic, though it did a good job of blocking viruses) and Norton (hint: no), I'm fine with this.

I've heard McAfee's good, though.

Muzozavr · Post by **Muzozavr** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:55 am

MyNameIsKooky wrote:I had RelevantKnowledge once. I easily disabled it via registry editing.

jdl wrote:I've used AVG for maybe 2 years, and it rarely ever picks up any viruses, I wouldn't recommend it.
I command it to scan often and it seems to work pretty well.

Yeah, but we don't have admin access on those machines. CMD works, but REGEDIT doesn't.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:07 pm

McAfee was a good utility back in the old days.
Today I would recommend Panda Cloud Antivirus .
It's free, has automatic updates, and uses minimal resources.

tyteen4a03 · Post by **tyteen4a03** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:38 pm

This is a figure of AV detection rate.

As you can see, McAfee's miss rate is about 1.5%. Panda is a bit lower than that.

Dark Drago · Post by **Dark Drago** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:19 am

I have AVIRA on desktop and KASPERSKY on netbook
KASPERSKY is so annoying, keeps popping out unwantedly

yot yot5 · Post by **yot yot5** » Tue May 01, 2012 9:42 am

Makes AVG look kinda bad now...

tyteen4a03 · Post by **tyteen4a03** » Tue May 01, 2012 11:13 am

yot yot5 wrote:Makes AVG look kinda bad now...

AVG has been bad since like, forever.

VirtLands · Post by **VirtLands** » Tue May 01, 2012 6:20 pm

I use no resident antivirus at all.

Instead I use Malwarebytes and HitMan Pro as a standby (non-active).
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.surfright.nl/en/products/

Qloof234 · Post by **Qloof234** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:51 pm

tyteen4a03 wrote:

So Norton doesn't block viruses at all, I take it?

This post is just a joke, if anyone's wondering

EDIT: Accidental double-post