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Is McAfee really that bad?
by shadowfox 16y ago
Is McAfee really that bad?
- loupgarou21 16y agoAfter buying Secure Computing and then discontinuing the SnapGear I know I'm not terribly happy with them.
- ajju 16y agoSnap Gear was awesome. Used an SG565 for some research we were doing. Best wireless router/UTM I have ever owned. Disclosure: Used to work for Secure Computing, but not the snapgear division.
- mcknz 16y agoIn April they issued an update that accidentally targeted legitimate Windows system files, causing the updated boxes to bluescreen. Astounding enterprise-level incompetence.
- bconway 16y agoThat might be excusable once (not really), but the problem is they do it every 3 months. Seriously, stay away from this stuff.
- Splines 16y agoFrom what I've heard, Intel HQ was hit by this as well.
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- barkingcat 16y agomaybe they weighed their options, and found that buying the company straight for 7 billion is cheaper than suffering through more downtime caused by McAfee software.
- ashishbharthi 16y agoOh yeah, McAFee has given blue screen to me many times. I bought Dell laptop for me and my gf. After McAFee free one year subscription expired, we decided to move to different anti virus. Once we uninstalled McAfee, both of our laptops got blue screens and crashed. My friend also had same experience with two of his computers.
- barrettcolin 16y agoThis happened to me too just this past week; the only resolution was a full system restore. Pretty shocking.
- lotusleaf1987 16y agoMcAfee is a resource hog.