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Mcaffe or Nortan?
Replies: 28Last Post April 18, 2006 2:55pm by Larmour
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Mcaffe without  doubt Norton is horid

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McAfee is proven to find and remove more things than Norton.  Free AVG is also an extremely weak alternative to McAfee or even Norton.

(Edited by ProtoformX at 11:22 pm on Nov. 19, 2005)


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McAfffe. but i use a free one called Avast, very good. Get a firewall aswell people!! and adware/spybot cleaners.

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When using windows, I take the time to set my file permissions, and apply a security template from [URL]http://www.nsa.gov/snac/[/URL].  Using only a user account with that will keep viruses and spyware away.  I do use Clam antivirus and AVG though.  Norton and McAffe steal lots of CPU cycles and that pisses me off.

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I use Etrust EZ Antivirus, (Zone Alarm uses the exact same program) its fairly good. It picks up pretty much everything, it just cant remove them all. But most it can. I agree with the last guy, prevention starts with the user. Its not hard to guess if somethings viral. If its from a dodgy site, theres a good chance its full of spyware or a trojan. When i get the money, i think i might go for the full security suite, its quality.

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Mcaffe was built for more advanced user and this is the reason why it is less comprehensive, although there is a better range of protection and tools if you know what you are doing, Norton is supposed to be used by the computer user that is not so 'learned' on the subject of protect, Norton does not actually do a very good job of protection and is actually out-classed but AVG (which is free) and massively out classed by Mcaffe, although i still recommend that you have more then one type of Internet security just to be safe.

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Unfortunately, I have never used Mcaffe so I cannot give you an accurate description on whether or not it is good.

Personally I don't really trust Norton. I did a scan with Norton and it said that my computer was clean. Later that same very day, I did another scan using some Microsoft product and it detected  threats. After this I have been very skeptical of Norton.

If you want you can try using either Avast or AVG, from what i have heard those two seem to be great. And they are free.

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Quote: from Rhapsody at 11:20 pm on Mar. 30, 2006

Unfortunately, I have never used Mcaffe so I cannot give you an accurate description on whether or not it is good.

Personally I don't really trust Norton. I did a scan with Norton and it said that my computer was clean. Later that same very day, I did another scan using some Microsoft product and it detected  threats. After this I have been very skeptical of Norton.

If you want you can try using either Avast or AVG, from what i have heard those two seem to be great. And they are free.


No offence, but I really hate it when people reel off stories about Norton not finding all these things other programs did. Norton does not pick up on some thing deliberately because they are no real threat. It's all about how programmes are classed. Many applications now just say if it’s on the list it must be bad and removed at once or you will all die. I hate this way of thinking. I much prefer Norton’s way which is to think whether there is any real point bothering the user about a program.

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In that case then, Norton should really look into having it in such a way that it would still alert users if these threats, no matter how low they are. I would honestly rather be bothered by a program finding these things even if they are not that big of a threat, than having a program which does not alert the user of these at all.

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Quote: from Rhapsody at 12:29 am on Mar. 31, 2006

In that case then, Norton should really look into having it in such a way that it would still alert users if these threats, no matter how low they are. I would honestly rather be bothered by a program finding these things even if they are not that big of a threat, than having a program which does not alert the user of these at all.

I have to say, as someone who has seen some pretty stupid people in his time dealing with computers; I stand by the way Norton does things. For example, do you actually give a shit if there has been a write fail on a certain sector of your RAM. Not a chance. You just allow the program to deal with it quietly and let you get on with your work. Security should not be the top of your mind when at a computer, it should just deal with things (whether that’s ignore them or delete them etc). People panic far too much about things that really mean nothing, mainly because they don’t understand. I have been running Norton internet security 2004 for a few years now. I let it update when it wants, I let it do most of a full scan once a week (although most times it get about half way) and I run a hardware firewall. That’s all and all my data is fine.

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[color=indigo]Now see, when it comes to my security especially when using the internet, I am extremely paranoid.

(Edited by Rhapsody at 7:49 pm on Mar. 30, 2006)

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Quote: from Rhapsody at 12:49 am on Mar. 31, 2006

[color=indigo]Now see, when it comes to my security especially when using the internet, I am extremely paranoid.

(Edited by Rhapsody at 7:49 pm on Mar. 30, 2006)


Hence why you should be kept in the dark, just think how much you would worry if you knew what was really going on....

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i hate Mcaffe  , i use Avast its cool , it cleans every thing.

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Yeah, they are both shit.

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