Norton vs. McAfee

Here's a great reason not to choose Mcafee:

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2802

Excel = Virus … At Least to McAfee
March 10, 2006

By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

Can you say oops? A really big oops? I hope you didn’t lose your copy of Excel because of this. Because of an error in a virus definition update, McAfee’s antivirus product was, for a brief time today, quarantining or deleting, depending upon your settings, Excel and other applications from PCs.

“At about 1 p.m. PST we started getting reports that people were seeing an unusual number of W95/CTX infections in their environment,” Telafici said. “Files that we did identify would probably be deleted or quarantined, depending on your settings.”

When a file gets quarantined, it’s renamed and moved to a different folder. McAfee’s antivirus software detected Excel.exe and Graph.exe, two Microsoft Office components, as well as other software, including AdobeUpdateManager.exe, an application installed alongside Adobe products that deals with software updates, Telafici said. Source: News.com

The error occurred in virus definition file 4715, which was released at about 10:45 AM PST, and was fixed in virus definition file 4716, released at about 3:30 PM.

 

my protection is through my ISP...bout $7/month more and seems to work great.

 

Symantec has one of the worst "virus released to updated definitions/removal code" in the business. Somewhere in the > 24 hours timeframe.
McAfee is mid-tier, somewhere in the 12 hours timeframe.

The company MSFT acquired has been in 2nd place for a while, very close to tied for first, at < 4 hours.

I'd happily pay more for Windows OneCare, as I get a lot more than just a-v, and I get a better A-V. And since it's free for at least a few more months, all the better .

 

Have they announced the price yet?

 

I`m using NOD32 and I have no complaints.

 

$49.95 per year, but unlike the other providers, you are legal to put this on several machines at home with only one purchase (i.e. pay $49.95, cover all 3 of your home machines).

And if you are in the beta, $19.95 for the first year .

And FYI: Symantec was second-worst on AV response time at >27 hours, McAfee was 3rd worst... They both suck hard.

 

:bananalam

 

Well nice then maybe you can tell me how to make this sumbitch scan in Safe Mode, because Microsoft can't. A virus got past it, and now I can't get it off. I think I could if I could do a scan in Safe Mode, but OneCare isn't capable of this, because it can't connect with Microsoft to tell them its there.

 

i hate Norton's, but mostly because of all the problems they caused on macs years ago...

mcafee is okay, i've never really had any majors issues with them, but i've heard about a lot

I have WindowsOne installed now and I don't see how the other two will be able to stay in business