Into the bin with mcafee 8

[Geoff Phillips]

I was quite happy with the older mcafee, but it expired, and I bought
version 8. I've just had a pile of spyware install itself on my machine,
which I luckily detected shortly afterwards.

While I wouldn't have necessarily expected McAfee (stupid name, are there
two f's, an 'a' between m and c, can never remember) to spot this happening,
it was because of Mcafee 8's insistance on reducing my browser security
settings which allowed the thing to get there.

I'm still not exactly clear which bit is the guilty party, but until McAfee
8, everything was secure - active X, scripting etc.

So into the bin it goes, and it will be Norton for me!

My advice for anyone putting Mcafee 8 on, if it says "your security settings
are too high" then throw it away.

Geoff.

 

[Bill]

My advice for anyone putting Mcafee 8 on, if it says "your security settings
are too high" then throw it away.

There's always 7.03

 

[Richard S. Westmoreland]

I was quite happy with the older mcafee, but it expired, and I bought
version 8. I've just had a pile of spyware install itself on my machine,
which I luckily detected shortly afterwards.

While I wouldn't have necessarily expected McAfee (stupid name, are there
two f's, an 'a' between m and c, can never remember) to spot this happening,
it was because of Mcafee 8's insistance on reducing my browser security
settings which allowed the thing to get there.

I'm still not exactly clear which bit is the guilty party, but until McAfee
8, everything was secure - active X, scripting etc.

So into the bin it goes, and it will be Norton for me!

My advice for anyone putting Mcafee 8 on, if it says "your security settings
are too high" then throw it away.

Why do you think Norton will be any better?

 

[Jeff Layman]

I quite agree. Came to the same conclusion early this year.

Fortunately, one of the moderators on the McAfee 8 forum had come across
this problem before (less secure browsing) and offered me a return to VS 7
with updates for a year.

I'm not sure what to do when the year's subscription runs out in a few
months. Will McAfee have released VS9? Will it still have the lousy
SecurityCenter? Will they have dumped ActiveX because MS are going to dump
it? One thing's certain, if they aren't supporting VS7 any more, I'm not
going to VS8.

 

[Smoker]

I was quite happy with the older mcafee, but it expired, and I bought
version 8. I've just had a pile of spyware install itself on my machine,
which I luckily detected shortly afterwards.

While I wouldn't have necessarily expected McAfee (stupid name, are there
two f's, an 'a' between m and c, can never remember) to spot this happening,
it was because of Mcafee 8's insistance on reducing my browser security
settings which allowed the thing to get there.

I'm still not exactly clear which bit is the guilty party, but until McAfee
8, everything was secure - active X, scripting etc.

So into the bin it goes, and it will be Norton for me!

My advice for anyone putting Mcafee 8 on, if it says "your security settings
are too high" then throw it away.

My 2 cents:

Norton and McAfee are both in the same boat when it comes to having
problems, Norton is especially noted for it.

Go here, www.v-com.com and have a look over their System Suite. The AV that
comes with it is Trend Micro, and the entire suite is bugfree and the best
one available. It was originally developed and sold by Ontrack and reviews
put it on top at the time. Norton had money to burn on marketing them out of
the lime light and I suppose that's why Ontrack sold it.

 

[Jeff Layman]

Just found out that McAfee released VS9 a few days ago. Seems it's just VS8
with very minor changes. According to the VS9 forum, it is as bad as VS8
:-((