McAfee vs. Kaspersky

[alkalinetaupehat]

The college I'm enrolled at for this fall offers students access to McAfee licenses for free, but I wonder if it would be worth it instead to purchase a license to Kaspersky.

Thoughts?

 

[WildHorse]

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[alkalinetaupehat]

I was reading Schadenfroh's thread and also one by tcsenter on updating McAfee's definitions and scanning engine. That's what I was thinking, it's nice though to get input from people not stuck in your mind...errr...from others.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Scouzer]

I'd use Avira Free rather than either of them.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
I'd use Avira Free rather than either of them.

Same, and on top of that, I'd pay for Avira if I had to. I wouldn't use McAfee at any price, even free.

If you took Avira off the board, I'd start experimenting. My first choices would be Norton 2009, and NOD32. I tried Kaspersky for a little while, and I didn't like the feel of it. It was a couple of years ago, so details are fuzzy, but I went back to free Avira.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Kaspersky is actually quite nice but since v7.0 I think it's getting more and more bloated. IT's one of the best in terms of detection, but I've switched to NOD after KAV 2009 just hogged up too much resources. Can't comment about McAfee. Haven't used them since 2001.

 

[BW86]

go with the free one - or better yet just download Avira

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Kaspersky is actually quite nice but since v7.0 I think it's getting more and more bloated. IT's one of the best in terms of detection, but I've switched to NOD after KAV 2009 just hogged up too much resources. Can't comment about McAfee. Haven't used them since 2001.

KAV is definitely bloated. It eats older machines alive.

 

[Wolfsraider]

mcaffee is still missing too many virus and others to even suggest using