Thread: To McAfee or not to McAfee?

Got a great offer with Sky broadband at the moment with free Mcafee.

Problem is, I don't whether it's any good or not. We have it at work and certain trojans have got onto our network, so it can't be all that.

I also had to disable Norton on my laptop - I hate it as it monolpolises your computer X(

So now I am (and have been for 6 months) been running Windows basic security program on Vista - should I really be worried?

Norton's defo a bag a bag of shite! That's the one bit of anti-virus software that most people seem to agree on in my experience! It slows your computer down no end, which in it's self is one of the things a virus can do! As far as McAfee goes everyone seems to have differing opinions as with most anti-virus software. I used to use Mcafee a couple of years ago, but one of my mates who's VERY good with computers told me it's rubbish & recomended Kaspersky so I switched over to that. Then another friend who's VERY good with computers said that Kaspersky's rubbish & reccomended AVG :-\ Anyway I've tried several over the years & out of what I've used I've found Kaspersky & AVG to be the best. The only problem I've found with both is that they detect keygens as a virus! Which is a pain in the arse, 'cus as soon as the keygen is detected as a virus it's rendered useless. In order to use the keygen's I have to uninstall AVG, use the keygen & then reinstall AVG which is a bit of a pain ~x(

Cheers Rog. As for keygens, I refuse to use them anymore - they've been nothing but fooking trouble (I've had to do system restores and the like), so IMO AVG is doing the right thing by noting them as viruses

I have a recent full version of AVG that comes with a serial, if you want a copy let me know

Originally Posted by Rogue_D

I have a recent full version of AVG that comes with a serial, if you want a copy let me know

Okey dokey

Hit me on PM dude

Yeah as rogue said norton is shite!! also you mite find when u remover norton yer internet might not work thats because there is keys left over in the registry you need to use a speical uninstall tool to remover norton. I use Mcafee on me laptop its not bad BUT slows the whole thing down when it updates and installs AVG is good to i used to use that.

Norton used to be good about 10 years ago - not much cop these days though.
Mcaffe couldn't catch a virus if u sneezed on it!

Avg is fairly good, but no one prog finds everything - plus as mentioned, a lot of progs register keygens as viruses (although some are, so u have to be careful).
And all virus killers slow down the pc a bit as it's checking everything that's going on. The faster the pc u have the better.
Oh, make sure u don't run more than 1 virus killer at once as they'll confict & slow stuff down even more. Spyware progs are a different kettle of fish.

Originally Posted by Iuneo

Yeah as rogue said norton is shite!! also you mite find when u remover norton yer internet might not work thats because there is keys left over in the registry you need to use a speical uninstall tool to remover norton.

regedit comes built in with windows, that should do the trick when it comes to removing unwanted registry entries

I have used all the popular virus software and never been happy with any of them, bit defender was alright i hear kaspersky is good to i actually i have to try that, i mite just buy it proper. I used cheap free spyware killers and they have found virus and trojans my main virus scanners missed!!

I have:

Hitman Pro & Spyware Terminator

Originally Posted by Rogue_D

regedit comes built in with windows, that should do the trick when it comes to removing unwanted registry entries

Thats rite but i guess for the average PC user it mite be a little daunting to manullay delete reg keys, i know i am fairly well up on PCs and such but still would'nt fuck about in the registery.....just incase.

I don't think even the Prof would mess around with his registry... would he?

Originally Posted by swipezster

I don't think even the Prof would mess around with his registry... would he?

Well I have done for certain easy stuff, but wouldn't delve too deeply in as most is way out of my depth.

Better off grabbing ccleaner (which is free) - this can clean up the registry & also has a program removal bit in it as well.

Originally Posted by billybob2007

Originally Posted by swipezster

I don't think even the Prof would mess around with his registry... would he?

Well I have done for certain easy stuff, but wouldn't delve too deeply in as most is way out of my depth.

Same here! In fact I think the only time I've used regedit is when removing Norton!

Try these

Registry Cleaner - http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindows...l?Str=download

Spyware Removal - http://www.iobit.com/security360.html?Str=download

They also come with a free toolbar that includes an internet radio player

& Thanks for the Avast link, the Key works fine
http://www.its-all-about-oldskool.co...p?f=174&t=5630

for what its worth guys i use eusing free registry cleaner and works really well,and picks up more than ccleaner