Do you hate McAfee?

daifu-orchid (imported)
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Can't help wondering if Target endorses McA?

(They said that they tested for altered files, and the usual ways and more for pen-testing/prevention. I'm wondering where they hid their badboy. Maybe fuzzed something in a vendor account?)
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I was updating Java and they tried to slip McAfee in but I was where to uncheck the box. DOB
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We had a lot of trouble with McAffee at work, because one of our customers put it on their machines and made a mess of things (I think it was slowing the systems down so much that various processes would time out). At home I have Fedora, which is built on SELinux. That seems to be a much more effective and better-integrated approach. The only downside is that the NSA assists in the development of SELinux, so we just have to hope the non-NSA developers are smart enough to catch any vulnerabilities the NSA folks try to sneak in.
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I ditched them back in 2003 or so. I bought it new on CD.

installed it.

It updated.

It demanded I pay for it.

I got to chat with a rep.

They cleared it up.

Next day, update.

Demanded i pay for it...uninstalled...refund.
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i like nod32, small memory footprint, powerful trojan and anti virus software
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I still can't say enough about how I adore Malwarebytes, the paid version. It's pulled my butt out of the fire more than once.
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