Mcafee Lawsuit.

  I won't have anything from McAfee, anywhere near my Computers.

 http://www.wired.com.../mcafeelawsuit/ 

 

I've only ever installed it on a computer once and that was about 3 years ago, I found a distinct feeling of the computer no longer being mine and doing what I wanted but instead McAfee seemed to take over and tell me what I could and couldn't do,

their was no way on this planet I was having that, My computer, my decisions, AV software is their to inform me on what's trying to change what and ask me if I want it to carry on, not tell me it won't let something do something I want it to.

so likewise when I get a free copy of McAfee I open the envelope its in and place it on the desk then I make my self a hot drink and place it on the McAfee DVD/CD. and that's as close as it gets to any of my PC's

 

I feel the same way,Match.

I get sick of being dictated to.

Wonder would their CD'S make good Frisbees.

 

if you place them in the oven on an up turned plate until they mould themselves to the shape of the plate then Yes, but they tend to be a little brittle and shatter if they hit anything hard

 

FROM MY PREVIOUS PERSONAL EXPERIANCE WITH THEM---



ME TOO DOUG----"NO WHERE NEAR"----

HOWEVER---thier Cd's make great targets :snckr:

 

ROFL maybe we should start a new thread, What's the best use you have found for your McAfee CD !!

 

OK---THEY ARE ALSO GOOD FOR KEEPING CROWS FROM EATING YOUR CORN---YUP---Just hang some on a string---the slightest breeze will make them move & the reflections scare them off. But up here most old timers shoot one & hang it in the garden---see that all the time. :unsure: ----LOL

 

Mcafee as far as I am aware is still one of the most used AV/Suites within the corporate arena.
I have tried and tested pretty much all the AV's available and if I am honest I am not convinced by any of them other than ESET and Microsofts offerings (even live onecare which I used until recently, as most know they stopped doing it)
and I am using the MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) on 3 of my main PC's with the Symantec Corporate being used on my server and 2 clients being linked to it.

Say what you will about Symantecs 'home' products, but you can't knock their corporate offerings, not heard much from Sygate though recently and as far as I am aware still owned by Symantec

 

Up until the other day I thought of Site Adviser as an exception to my dislike for McAfee. Now I am afraid that I have to include that as well. In trying to find an answer to our "Skin" issue I was warned off one particular site as a security risk. When I checked for a reason it showed links to "green" sites. Now green sites are supposed to be safe. Why then are links to them unsafe. You would think that the sites listed would have something inferently wrong about them (Porn sites etc.) but in fact they were all IPB related and posed no threat at all. If I just blindly accepted the McAfee warning how unfair would that have been to the company who's site I was about to enter? Those guys should sue.

 

You hear "horror stories" every so often about a legitimate business that has been put on the Black List ... unfairly. They appear to have an up-hill battle to get it corrected. Seems Site Adviser only reviews their ratings every so often.

Wouldn't do your business any good to find itself on such a list. Might be a subject for litigation.

This is one product that I've never used - although my ISP used to use their services.

 

I thought this thread was going to be about last Thursday's McAfee disastrous blunder, but wow! They're in all kinds of trouble.

Last Thursday I came back from lunch to see that my WinXP SP3 PC was prompting me for my disk decryption passphrase, so it must have shutdown. I asked around and found a couple coworkers in the same situation.

After booting, it shutdown again. After booting again I was able to log in, but several network activities didn't work. It wasn't until Friday afternoon when the IT guys restored the OS that I could fully get to work.

I don't have a choice about McAfee. Corporate decides.

 

Yes been reading lots about that, apparently they released an update that crashed XP systems, also the fix was a labour intensive, that had to be applied manually, so I should imagine quite a few IT guys decided that restoring the OS was the fastest way to fix it, but I can see someone getting an escort of the premises.

Problem being that security is such a competitive field that your only as good as your last update.

also being reading that by running a system at minimum voltages you can crack RSS encryption, http:/ ews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8637845.stm not exactly worrying as your average criminal wouldn't have the resources