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John McAfee on How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
- icpmacdo 13y agoI like how self aware he is of how people think he is crazy.
- Shivetya 13y agoA bit much.
- patrickskim 13y agoDidn't he "allegedly" murder someone?
- pseudometa 13y agoI believe the story turned into one of extortion by a politition looking for millions in donations.
- Mikeb85 13y agoAllegedly. The rule of law in the Caribbean is sketchy at best, and corruption is rampant. You're more likely to get robbed, framed, or killed by the police than to receive any kind of help or justice.
- fourmii 13y agoI haven't really kept up on McAfee news, isn't he wanted for murder somewhere? But I thought the vid was hilarious! I have to say, the McAfee AV on Windows is pretty much as described. I have to support it for clients, and often, when I get complaints about PC slow down or freezes, one of the first things I do is to disable all the McAfee services. Anyone recommend better competitors to McAfee?
- DocG 13y agoFor free soft, I used to install AV, but it had horrible chance of getting messed up by user by installing 30 days trial and blocking me running my small viruses on my own comupter. MSE all the way, no way to accidentally install trial and allows to run everything I want.
- wmt 13y agoSo MSE is good because it doesn't block YOUR VIRUSES? Not the most solid praise I've heard.
- DocG 13y agoLet me rephrase it. It allows me to be in control when I want it. If I choose to run something it THINKS is malicious, it will let me. It is decently hidden menu for a casual user, but easy enough for people who need it. With AVG only way was to allow certain directories and it was buried under menus.
- pseudometa 13y agoYeah, get a Mac
- kryten 13y agoAnd for those with computers people can be bothered to write virii for because of the massive market share, I would suggest Microsoft Security Essentials or if you have windows 8, don't bother with AV as it is built in.
- venomsnake 13y agoAnd how would exactly getting a mac protect him from malware when he dual boots to windows?
- saintx 13y agodd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 Boom. Problem solved.
- beedogs 13y agoHe is like the Kim Dotcom of skinny people.
- marban 13y agoRather the elderly tattooed
- recursive 13y agoSkinny people? I don't think we were watching the same video.
- workbench 13y agoAmerican skinny, not real world skinny. Just like how obese is "curvy" or "chubby" over there
- DuskStar 13y agoIn comparison to Dotcom, we are all skinny people.
- human_error 13y agoHe's quite good looking for his age.
- cskau 13y agoIn completely unrelated news no-one has registered ishnreddityet.com
- kevincennis 13y agoProbably worth noting that depending on your office culture, this may be NSFW.
- chippy 13y agoWasn't he on the run and wanted for murder?
- Mikeb85 13y agoThe fact he's running free and wild in the US shows that they don't take the Belize government's allegations seriously. Nor should they...
- brianbreslin 13y agoIs he still hanging out in Miami?
- bonzoesc 13y agoThe credits at the end state that most of the actresses were hired through a firm in Portland, so I'd assume he's in Oregon, where summer days aren't 90°F.
- LandoCalrissian 13y agoYes, he's in Portland from last I heard.
- tericho 13y agoThis is the best post I've ever seen on Hacker News
- microcolonel 13y agoCould just run OpenBSD, where instead of blocking malware, you just don't let bugs rot in the software....
- victorlin 13y agoThis is hilarious. And I want to see a King Dotcom verse John Mcafee video please. I think it could be fun.
- 1337biz 13y agoThey need to become the dark knights of the internet, protecting us from all the white knightery going around lately.
- thisNeXTguy8487 13y agoSO hilarious.
- fakeer 13y agoThis guy is good. Living the life his way. But wasn't he supposed to be in a jail[0] or sth and didn't he lose all his money[1] in the bubble burst? [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Legal_problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Legal_problems [1]http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=8462247 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=8462247 and http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fcc5bdda-3f36-11e2-a095-00144feabdc0.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fcc5bdda-3f36-11e2-a095-00144feabd...
- qdog 13y agoPretty funny, although still crazy. McAfee bought Dr. Solomon's AV in 1997. If you don't want to have issues with AV, just don't use any and don't click on anything and sit behind a firewalled router. If you have MFE installed: 1) disable OAS (On Access Scan) if it's slowing you down, re-enable it if your kids/family members that click attachments get on your computer 2) Set full scans only to be done in the middle of the night, or never (manually update), but don't expect the AV to protect you if you forget. 3) Set updates to only run only in the middle of the night or never (manually update), but see above about forgetting. Now you ask yourself, why in the F would someone's AV (any vendor) crank up in the middle of the day and screw me? If and when new important virus's are found (like Flame), the signature for that virus may be pushed out immediately, triggering a full scan. In the case of Flame the signer(Microsoft) was revoked, triggering a new full scan. Why is AV so slow? Most AV vendors have a huge signature of virii, and have to search each file for matching patterns (often having to match different sections of the file). Each new virus adds a new pattern, and adds just that little bit more overhead. There are some projects to do a predictive engine, but that requires overhead itself, and ends up really needing a lot more resources (block on every action while your predictive engine determines if the process doing the action is behaving or not, like having a Big Brother hanging out in your OS). I use both MFE and Windows on different computers, and remember, even if you install another AV, Windows Defender is still partially enabled on Win8+, probably because Windows is taking security more seriously.