Anyone ever seen a machine running macafee....

[Goosemaster]

Their software is horrible


[/megalomaniatic rant]

 

[Sentinel]

i have 4 running mcafee fine...

 

McAfee Virusscan and it's great.

 

[Auryg]

I hate all virus software..all it does it cause problems.

But I spose 90% of the computer population needs it..or atleast the media has convinced them they do.

 

[GhettoFob]

I have it at work and it's not too bad. Of course my system is p4 with HT and 1 gig of ram...

 

[bootymac]

Originally posted by: Auryg
I hate all virus software..all it does it cause problems.

But I spose 90% of the computer population needs it..or atleast the media has convinced them they do.

It can come in handy when you're looking at porn! :Q

 

[jtvang125]

When I have to support 200 PCs running them it becomes damn annoying with all the bugs in the software. Stuff like BSODs while trying to update the virus definitions, corrupt virus scan files, causing various Windows errors...ect.

When we remove it temporaily, the PC boots up so much faster and runs way more stable.

 

[sniperruff]

the commercial norton is crap. uses up too much resources. i had the corporate edition through school and it worked fine, but the commercial version is really crap. uninstalled it and got CA antivirus. uses much lesser resources than norton.

 

[Ns1]

not being a n00b and not needing an antivirus is great

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
not being a n00b and not needing an antivirus is great

until blaster comes along. booya!

 

[Schadenfroh]

A PC running the Enterprise Edition of Mcafee runs fine

 

[suse920]

yes five here, norton on the other hand ...

 

[middlehead]

My college gives a laptop to every student and uses nothing but McAfee on all units. The last generation of machines were no shining temples of power (1.3 P-M, 512RAM @ 400MHz, 1MB L2), but the people that aren't retarded had no problems.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: jtvang125
When I have to support 200 PCs running them it becomes damn annoying with all the bugs in the software. Stuff like BSODs while trying to update the virus definitions, corrupt virus scan files, causing various Windows errors...ect.

When we remove it temporaily, the PC boots up so much faster and runs way more stable.

You are doing something wrong. Or else I'm doing something very, very right. :evil: VS Enterprise 8.0i + ePO 3.5.0 here, with almost every possible option enabled, plus some custom tricks of my own. It might slow stuff down but it doesn't cause BSOD's. In our fleet, about the only thing that causes BSODs is failing hard drives.

When I tried the McAfee home-version trialware, I noticed that they enable all the goodies by default, which means it takes more muscle to scan compared to a product that leaves it up to you whether to enable scanning with heuristics, within compressed files (biggie), etc. So part of the performance hit may be that McAfee is actually ready to play hardball right out of the box. Not saying I'm a fan of their home-user stuff with its melodramatic ways.

 

[neutralizer]

Have it at work. It runs like ass.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: jtvang125
When I have to support 200 PCs running them it becomes damn annoying with all the bugs in the software. Stuff like BSODs while trying to update the virus definitions, corrupt virus scan files, causing various Windows errors...ect.

When we remove it temporaily, the PC boots up so much faster and runs way more stable.

yeah. god bless norton corporate. runs like a dream.

 

[dug777]

nevar...i :heart: AVG