McAfee Antivirus-What do you think of it?

Novice2000 · 02-13-2008, 03:16 AM

I've heard alot of bad things about McAfee. I heard that it causes problems on people's computer's. Are these things true? What does everyone here think of it?

Eternal Rest · 02-13-2008, 03:21 AM

I haven't really heard anything good about McAfee either. Norton is a lot better in my opinion, though I don't really care for that either, but if you need one of them, I'd go with Norton.

hack2007 · 02-13-2008, 11:28 PM

well Mcafee makes the system very slower. I prefer kaspersky

hNic · 02-14-2008, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by hack2007

well Mcafee makes the system very slower. I prefer kaspersky

100% disagree.....that was the case back when 128mb of RAM was still something to get excited about....

I have been using mcafee for the better part of a decade and with the exception of above have never had slow down issues....except for the few weeks i used Norton and wanted to commit suicide...

but i would also suggest Kaspersky as well...excellent program

PohTayToez · 02-14-2008, 06:14 PM

McAfee is definitely a resource hog, although probably not as bad as Norton. There are free programs that offer equal if not better security and don't slow down your machine half as much. I would recommend AVG Free.

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Eternal Rest Silver Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 122	I haven't really heard anything good about McAfee either. Norton is a lot better in my opinion, though I don't really care for that either, but if you need one of them, I'd go with Norton. __________________ Case - Antec 900 Mobo - ASUS nForce 650i SLI Processor - Intel Q6600 quad core Vid Card - eVGA 8600GTS HDD - Western Digital 750GB PSU - Rosewill 900W RAM - GEIL 4GB DDR2 800

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PohTayToez Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Illinois Age: 19 Posts: 2,601	McAfee is definitely a resource hog, although probably not as bad as Norton. There are free programs that offer equal if not better security and don't slow down your machine half as much. I would recommend AVG Free. __________________ Desktop / Laptop ASUS A8N-E / Compaq Presario v6420us AMD Athlon 3200+ @ 2.50Ghz / AMD Athlon X2 TK-53 @ 1.70Ghz MSI GeForce 7800GT / GeForce Go 6150 2 x 512MB DDR / 2 x 1GB DDR2 250GB SATA II / 80GB 5400RPM SATA 2 x DVD Burner / 8X DVD±R/RW

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