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McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« on: February 03, 2009, 03:47:31 PM »

I bought this ages ago and I've not had any problems at all.

Saying that I don't download loads of random crap anyway so am probably less at risk than most.

My question is though - Am I wasting my money?

I've seen threads about all this free anti virus stuff and wondered how it compares?

I've always been of the opinion that if it's free it's probably crap but plenty seem happy with AVG / AVAST / etc.....


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Re: McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2009, 03:51:21 PM »

Anti virus software and firewalls are not the same thing Matt.

I use AVG anti virus and the windows firewall. No probs in 5 years.


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Re: McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2009, 03:57:43 PM »

Instead of paying for McAfee I'd pay for NOD32 as an anti-virus programme.

But, if you don't want to pay - AVAST for your anti-virus, and then for your firewall, you can use the windows firewall, or something like ZoneAlarm, Comodo, Online Armor. That should protect you from most threats, and then use a lot of common sense. Scan anything you receive via email, don't open attachments or files that you weren't expecting, etc.


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Re: McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2009, 05:56:14 PM »

as kinboshi says nod32 is the dogs danglies.It aint free but you can try it or the eset smart security for a month. Its effortless and gets number1 ratings by all the software security experts. can be found here http://www.eset.co.uk/Trial/Request


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Re: McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2009, 07:23:22 PM »

mcafee are shit - if you don't pay for updates they disable the software. They are scumbags don't give them amy more money please.


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Re: McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2009, 07:35:16 PM »

Quote from: doubleup on February 03, 2009, 07:23:22 PM

mcafee are shit - if you don't pay for updates they disable the software. They are kuntbags don't give them amy more money please.


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Re: McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2009, 08:59:37 PM »

Quote from: doubleup on February 03, 2009, 07:23:22 PM

mcafee are shit - if you don't pay for updates they disable the software. They are scumbags don't give them amy more money please.

[ ] this is true.

they've never asked me to pay for updates, they obviously didn't like


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Re: McAffee Anti Virus / Firewall

« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2009, 11:30:48 AM »

Quote from: kinboshi on February 03, 2009, 03:57:43 PM

ding ding ding.

My mate made me buy it a few years ago and it is the easiest AV/FW to manage. It runs on very low processing power and isn't too expensive.