McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? in Comcast HSI http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21543501 en Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:16 EDT Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:16 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21561437 devolic : AVG for me, NOD's also a good one.
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said by q6600 :

pokesph u obviously dont know your stuff... saying free av's dont find everything... they are just as good as purchased ones... cant believe someone would say that... and norton sucks btw... it is also a system resource hog.. lol
I agree. Before I never used any AV program except the Housecall.com online scanner until one day:

After I cleared my internet history I opened Internet Explorer to Yahoo.com as my home page. When I checked my history a unknown IP address would show up along with the Yahoo.com. It turned out I was sending a file in my temp folder named "abc123.pid" to this unknown address. I went to Housecall.com online scanner to find out I was clean but I was still infected with some sort of virus. I then went to Norton's online scanner that scans and tells you what it finds but don't clean. It told me I had like 3 infections that Housecall didn't detect. After investigating the infections I found more info about what my computer was infected with. I searched for "free antivirus programs" and AVG free was first on the list. I installed AVG free and it cleaned out all the infections I had.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21559140 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:33:35 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21558853 anon : pokesph u obviously dont know your stuff... saying free av's dont find everything... they are just as good as purchased ones... cant believe someone would say that... and norton sucks btw... it is also a system resource hog.. lol]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21558853 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:44:49 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21558606 CUBS_FAN :
said by andyross See Profile :

said by CUBS_FAN See Profile :

McAfee is resource hog and is constantly scanning. Virus Scan Enterprise 8.0.0 is installed on a work P.C and is currently consuming 105,344K in memory usage. I use Avira free ;)
Enterprise 8.5 and 8.7 supposedly have smaller memory footprints. Alot of memory may not be a bad thing. If it's used to cache scanning of files, it can speed things up by not having to always rescan a file if it doesn't change.
Installed over 8.0 with 8.5i and Mcshield.exe is now consuming 49,112K which is about half of what 8.0 was. That's better but still higher than Avira.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21558606 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:07:50 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21558166 pokesph : also not a McAfee fan... POS software, bad detection rates, system resource hog, etc.. The Comcast free ver is even worse.

I have been using Norton's latest (AV2008 / AV2009) with good results and much lower resource usage then older ones. It has excellent detection rates and updates at least daily.

Personally I don't trust the 'free' AVs as there is no real guarantee on them catching anything. With that said, I've used avg and it did seem to work ok and was system light.

bottom line is to use a quality, trused AV. In my case I choose Norton AV (not NIS or 360).

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said by NormanS See Profile :

I won't have anything McAfee (or Norton) on any computer I own, or maintain. Free, or otherwise. I have used both in the past, and they were the source of much cursing and tooth-gnashing.
A recent article tested some of the slowdowns by various virus packages. The newest Norton's was actually one of the better ones. I think McAfee was average.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21552579 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:51:58 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21552571 andyross :
said by CUBS_FAN See Profile :

McAfee is resource hog and is constantly scanning. Virus Scan Enterprise 8.0.0 is installed on a work P.C and is currently consuming 105,344K in memory usage. I use Avira free ;)
Enterprise 8.5 and 8.7 supposedly have smaller memory footprints. Alot of memory may not be a bad thing. If it's used to cache scanning of files, it can speed things up by not having to always rescan a file if it doesn't change.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21552571 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:50:37 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21552234 CUBS_FAN : McAfee is resource hog and is constantly scanning. Virus Scan Enterprise 8.0.0 is installed on a work P.C and is currently consuming 105,344K in memory usage. I use Avira free ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21552234 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:41:58 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21551943 anon : This isnt 1998 with our 400 mhz pentium 2's...

If you have a dual core box and 2 gig of ram... which you should have anyway considering the price... you wont even notice its running...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21551943 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:36:20 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21551499 maxey13 : Thanks for all the replies. I asked the question because I had McAfee several years ago and it slowed my computer way down and when I tried to get rid of it it was a mess. I was hoping something had changed. I have 2 grandkids that are very active steam players also. I think i'll give Avast a try first then change to Mcafee if that doesnt work.
Thank you
Dennis]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21551499 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:49:40 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21551394 NormanS : I won't have anything McAfee (or Norton) on any computer I own, or maintain. Free, or otherwise. I have used both in the past, and they were the source of much cursing and tooth-gnashing.
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On the downside it is a drag on resources (as noted by others above) while it's scanning and it updates a couple of times a day some days.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21549609 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:47:37 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21548295 huyvu : Helter is spot on. I uninstalled it due to the overhead required to run it (the pay version is better). I'm running Avast at home. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21548295 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:53:41 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21548069 helter : If you have the CPU and ram to spare, it is fine otherwise, download.com try out avast or AVG.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21548069 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:12:17 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547702 Puffnstuff : I've noticed that is has problems with steam and causes security center to think that no firewall or av is present. If you don't use steam then you should be fine. I just ignore the message and do my thing with it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547702 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:20:51 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547544 FicmanS : It's a good free option, would not be my first choice. Getting it uninstalled can be a challenge, gets a little confused every now and then. Average coverage in my book...

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547544 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:53:51 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547521 ablickle : I am running it on all of my computers without issues. I'd say give it a try, you'll like it just fine. If not, uninstall and you're still not out any money.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547521 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:50:45 EDT Re: McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547097 MADx : See for your self :)

»www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/e···8_11.php]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21547097 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:48:43 EDT McAfee Security Suite from Comcast . Is it ok ? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21543501 maxey13 : My anti virus is expiring and i'm thinking about free McAfee from Comcast. I haven't seen any posts in awhile. Is everyone finding it is running ok now?

Thanks Dennis]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21543501 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:03:31 EDT