McAfee VirusScan Plus, any good?

[Gerald Bramwell]

Hi,

I have been offered a free 12 month subscription with McAfee VirusScan
Plus through my online banking. I am using indows XP Home with 512 Mb
memory, 2.8Ghz pentium P4, 80Gb hd x3, DVD writer, is the McAffe
VirusScan Plus any good? Is it worth installing for the year?

Thanks

Gerald

 

[Malke]

Gerald Bramwell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been offered a free 12 month subscription with McAfee VirusScan
> Plus through my online banking. I am using indows XP Home with 512 Mb
> memory, 2.8Ghz pentium P4, 80Gb hd x3, DVD writer, is the McAffe
> VirusScan Plus any good? Is it worth installing for the year?

No. Both McAfee and Norton are pretty dreadful. Recommended antivirus
programs are NOD32, Kaspersky, and Avast if you want a free one.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

 

[Jay Cee]

Yes. I have about the same PC set-up. I use McAfee Enterprise.


"Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have been offered a free 12 month subscription with McAfee VirusScan
> Plus through my online banking. I am using indows XP Home with 512 Mb
> memory, 2.8Ghz pentium P4, 80Gb hd x3, DVD writer, is the McAffe VirusScan
> Plus any good? Is it worth installing for the year?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gerald

 

[Newell White]

Even if experts could agree on the "best" anti-virus software, a firewall is
far more important for the home user. In 12 months, no virus detections, but
thousands of attempts to infiltrate my PC via its IP address thwarted.

Forgive me if I am teaching granny how to suck an egg!
--
Newell White


"Gerald Bramwell" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been offered a free 12 month subscription with McAfee VirusScan
> Plus through my online banking. I am using indows XP Home with 512 Mb
> memory, 2.8Ghz pentium P4, 80Gb hd x3, DVD writer, is the McAffe
> VirusScan Plus any good? Is it worth installing for the year?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gerald
>

 

[Richard Urban]

The enterprise versions of McAfee and Symantec are a far cry from the retail
versions which - how can I delicately put this - STINK!

I wouldn't allow McAfee or Symantec retail **anything** on any computer I
work on. If people have already paid for it I, with their permission, remove
it and install freeware versions of programs that do better.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"Jay Cee" <SpamJaySpamCeeSpamx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ugFRNXQFIHA.5396@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Yes. I have about the same PC set-up. I use McAfee Enterprise.
>
>
> "Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
> news:%23xCqcKMFIHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been offered a free 12 month subscription with McAfee VirusScan
>> Plus through my online banking. I am using indows XP Home with 512 Mb
>> memory, 2.8Ghz pentium P4, 80Gb hd x3, DVD writer, is the McAffe
>> VirusScan Plus any good? Is it worth installing for the year?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Gerald
>
>

 

[Roman King]

The major pain with NAV and McAfee was that they recognized ole16.dll as
virus soon after their installation. Because of that, our computers
(including my wife's computer) could not run. I installed AVG75 about five
months ago. Voila. Since then, computing has been so peaceful. I would
never upgrade or buy another NAV or McAfee. Roman



"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The enterprise versions of McAfee and Symantec are a far cry from the
> retail versions which - how can I delicately put this - STINK!
>
> I wouldn't allow McAfee or Symantec retail **anything** on any computer I
> work on. If people have already paid for it I, with their permission,
> remove it and install freeware versions of programs that do better.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
>
>
> "Jay Cee" <SpamJaySpamCeeSpamx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ugFRNXQFIHA.5396@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Yes. I have about the same PC set-up. I use McAfee Enterprise.
>>
>>
>> "Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
>> news:%23xCqcKMFIHA.3548@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have been offered a free 12 month subscription with McAfee VirusScan
>>> Plus through my online banking. I am using indows XP Home with 512 Mb
>>> memory, 2.8Ghz pentium P4, 80Gb hd x3, DVD writer, is the McAffe
>>> VirusScan Plus any good? Is it worth installing for the year?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Gerald
>>
>>
>