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Let me present you McAfee copying a folder full of zip files, at least this is what it did five years ago. First of all, it is horribly slow scanning any kind

Let me present you McAfee copying a folder full of zip files, at least this is what it did five years ago. First of all, it is horribly slow scanning any kind of zipped content. Second, it scans a whole folder if you touch one file. Third, it forgets you scanned a file if it gets modified, even before closing the file. So you copy a buffer full (64k?) of bytes, and mcafee scans the full folder. Then you copy another buffer full, and it scans the full folder again. And so on. I saw the windows estimated copy time go down from multiple days to a few minutes by adding an exclusion on a folder. Another fun McAfee tip is to keep your recycle bin as empty as possible, especially for zip files, because windows will look at the content regularly, so mcafee keeps on scanning it again and again.

formerly_proven 5y ago
McAfee is still utter garbage (like, well... most "security" software) that will make an NVMe SSD look like a late 90s HDD.
franga2000 5y ago
> Another fun McAfee tip Here's my favourite one, which was even supported by the man himself: uninstall it as soon as possible! It's not only a pretty bad antivirus, but seems to be straight up dangerous, having had some of the most destructive bugs I've seen in any software (like the time it bootlooped millions of PCs around the world- including hospitals and police stations!). There are so many better options available, I'm amazed anyone actually uses it (unless 100% of their install base is people who got it preinstalled).
- hyperman1 5y ago
  You're my new best friend! I'd give you the contact for corporate IT, but even they ran away to MS Defender. McAfee's users are not the people who suffer it on their PC, but the manager who love a big name and hate a migration, and the windows domain admins who love the centralized console. The damage caused by user frustration, lost time waiting, troubleshooting, and actual hardware obsolete before its time is not their concern. I can tell from experience the windows domain admins disable it on their own laptop, as they 'know what they are doing', unlike the rest of us.

formerly_proven 5y ago

McAfee is still utter garbage (like, well... most "security" software) that will make an NVMe SSD look like a late 90s HDD.

franga2000 5y ago

> Another fun McAfee tip Here's my favourite one, which was even supported by the man himself: uninstall it as soon as possible! It's not only a pretty bad antivirus, but seems to be straight up dangerous, having had some of the most destructive bugs I've seen in any software (like the time it bootlooped millions of PCs around the world- including hospitals and police stations!). There are so many better options available, I'm amazed anyone actually uses it (unless 100% of their install base is people who got it preinstalled).

hyperman1 5y ago
You're my new best friend! I'd give you the contact for corporate IT, but even they ran away to MS Defender. McAfee's users are not the people who suffer it on their PC, but the manager who love a big name and hate a migration, and the windows domain admins who love the centralized console. The damage caused by user frustration, lost time waiting, troubleshooting, and actual hardware obsolete before its time is not their concern. I can tell from experience the windows domain admins disable it on their own laptop, as they 'know what they are doing', unlike the rest of us.