McAfee Virusscan
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- chall5
Who has this ?
I don't usually get viruses but I thought with all the new ones going around I should get some protection.
I downloaded the trial of McAfee virusscan while ago but found it had a heavy fottprint on my system
If you have it what is your experience ?
Any viable alternatives ?
Can you have McAfee scan on access rather than scan all files in the background ?
Any advice appreciated
- ER0
I was told by someone i trust (technically) that mcafee is the best (they have more than one virus app) and second choice would be norton
- k5m0
I think anti virus programs are useless anymore. New viruses come out way too fast for the companies to keeup. If you're not a complete tool and don't just open random attatchments then you'llblock about 99% of the viruses and Norton or McAfee will protect you against.
The slammer virus we recently saw, there was nothing that could be done against it, accept to install the patch. Save your money and your download time. Get a mac, and ditch the insecurity of windows. Thats the best thing to do.
-k5m
- jox0
I've always had Norton. Works like a charm, never had any problems. It runs in the background, updates itself, so you can't really blame "new viruses" becuase every morning it has updated itself to protect from those.
I use Norton because Symantec is the largest company in this business = experience.
- jox0
.. and one more thing. Installing anti virus software on a already running system is pretty useless, because if there were viruses there before, they "hide" from the software, or so I've heard.
First thing after installing windows or whatever you use, get the anti virus software.
- mitsu0
"Get a mac, and ditch the insecurity of windows. Thats the best thing to do."
yeah, but that's not a cost-effective solution if your company has several thousand pc's and has already paid for liscences for all the software that runs on those pc's.. not to mention the fact that they may use software written only for pc's... and that's only the tip of the iceberg... next up to bat: data migration... whoopee!
so i guess if you're not in that boat, and you've got a few grand to spend on a new box, getting a mac might work.
- unknown0
had mcafee when I installed win2000, a version specifically for it. It really screwed things up to the point the registry had to be edited.
Switched to Nortons, and just got the newest Nortons a few weeks ago.
Have a firewall too, BlackIce, but something still messed my computer up recently. IE5.5 wouldn't display imagines on web pages, so upgraded to IE6.
- fits0
i hate mcafee. it always ask to update and when i do it just reinstalls thewhole program everytime. when i do get a virus it gives me errors and cant delete or quarantine the file. i hear norton is much better.
- jox0
it is
- nosaj0
I've been using an AVG anit-virus/ zonealarm firewall combo at home and have had no problem with either so far. Plus they're both free:
- jox0
ah that zonealarm is crazy! starts yelling about everything. When I tried it once, apparently I had 400 hackers trying to take over my computer...
- unknown0
I use
Norton
Zone Alarm
Ad Aware
Spy Botbecause I'm worth it
- nosaj0
I hear ya, it takes a little playing with the settings so that you don't get alerts for everything, but once you have it tuned it just runs quietly in the background.
- unknown0
I have to turn off zonealarm to post in Newstoday - other than that it's a godsend
- jox0
jesus crist, that would be like turning your computer off!!