Engadget users actually install AVG or Avast willingly? You guys are fucking psychotic. Any and all issues not blocked by Microsoft SE and Spybot's Teatimer that haven't just surfaced are caused by user error. Anything but those two programs is just massive self important bloatware. Abandon all hope internet users as anything beyond these two forms of protection is either entirely user error or something that can NOT be corrected via installed software. The only option of true system stability and recovery is to run a system restore of a backup or reinstalling a fresh copy of your OS. This sirs and madams is FACT which is why I find it hilarious people will even pay for "Virus Removal/Protection."
Check out Microsoft Security Essentials sometime. It's even lighter and easier to use than AVG and Avast, plus I like the fact that Microsoft has a much larger data pool to draw from than either AVG or Avast (since they also have their Forefront products aimed at businesses, which uses the same AV engine). I also think that something like AV will benefit from being developed by the same company that wrote the OS it's protecting -- even if it should've been built into the OS to begin with. Stupid EU and their anti-trust cases!
And with behavior like this, I think they've officially lost the right to use the words "Anti" or "Scan" in their name. From here on out, their name is now McAfee Virus. That's it.
Corporate user: "Oh no, I have the McAfee Virus!" Corporate tech: "Here's the fix: Start->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Click remove on anything to do with McAfee->Reboot. Then call them up and cancel your subscription."
Trend unfortunately isn't much better in my experience. Most of the time the agents report to the central server that they detected a threat but weren't able to do anything about it. Sure it doesn't consume resources like McAfee or Symantec, but that's because it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything. Unfortunately I don't know of any good centrally manageable AV solutions -- the latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection on Win7 seems to be ok, but I haven't spent much time with it. For standalone though, check out Microsoft Security Essentials. Great stuff.
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Always hated McAfee and always will
@Bskballa92
Nod32 FTW!
@Bskballa92
Perhaps its time to switch to a Mac?
just saying...
@AppleDrank
Perhaps it's time to switch to a modern AntiVirus.
@Dafrety Avast, ye virus scum!
@Bskballa92
Hater!
@Bskballa92
Just another reason to stick with Security Essentials.... I hated McAfee too, Firewall never worked right. Always screwed up eBay.
@Bskballa92
agreed 100%, anytime i see a friends computer with Mcafee on it i cringe, and immediately remove it and install AVG or Avast
@Dafrety We just switched the bulk of our users to Trend last week, so WHEW! (we did still have 5-6 people on McAfee, so count those systems hosed)
@Bskballa92 McAfee and Norton makes Flash look like a good memory and CPU citizen.
@N900 I use Avast on my Windows system and it works great!
@Jaylittles531 NOD is no better. AVAST FTW!!!
@Jaylittles531 Sorry mate misread it with NOD antivirus.
My bad. http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Security_Essentials
@daytripper AFFIRMATIVE!! Been using NOD for YEARS! Beats Mcafee and Norton!
@daytripper
That's what my company rolls with.
@Bskballa92
Engadget users actually install AVG or Avast willingly? You guys are fucking psychotic. Any and all issues not blocked by Microsoft SE and Spybot's Teatimer that haven't just surfaced are caused by user error. Anything but those two programs is just massive self important bloatware. Abandon all hope internet users as anything beyond these two forms of protection is either entirely user error or something that can NOT be corrected via installed software. The only option of true system stability and recovery is to run a system restore of a backup or reinstalling a fresh copy of your OS. This sirs and madams is FACT which is why I find it hilarious people will even pay for "Virus Removal/Protection."
@Anticrawl
Recovery from infected files due to computer virus that is.
@agroupofletters
Check out Microsoft Security Essentials sometime. It's even lighter and easier to use than AVG and Avast, plus I like the fact that Microsoft has a much larger data pool to draw from than either AVG or Avast (since they also have their Forefront products aimed at businesses, which uses the same AV engine). I also think that something like AV will benefit from being developed by the same company that wrote the OS it's protecting -- even if it should've been built into the OS to begin with. Stupid EU and their anti-trust cases!
@Bskballa92
Me too.
And with behavior like this, I think they've officially lost the right to use the words "Anti" or "Scan" in their name. From here on out, their name is now McAfee Virus. That's it.
Corporate user: "Oh no, I have the McAfee Virus!"
Corporate tech: "Here's the fix: Start->Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Click remove on anything to do with McAfee->Reboot. Then call them up and cancel your subscription."
@ltfields
Trend unfortunately isn't much better in my experience. Most of the time the agents report to the central server that they detected a threat but weren't able to do anything about it. Sure it doesn't consume resources like McAfee or Symantec, but that's because it doesn't seem to be doing much of anything. Unfortunately I don't know of any good centrally manageable AV solutions -- the latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection on Win7 seems to be ok, but I haven't spent much time with it. For standalone though, check out Microsoft Security Essentials. Great stuff.
@Bskballa92
I've given up on McAfee after they took the liberty of making pop-ups advertising their products. To me, that's as bad as any adware around.