Topic: McAfee security suite

[daveeb]

evenin' all

I've just ordered myself a laptop from Dell, it comes preloaded with a 15 month subscription to the above. My first reaction is to uninstall it and stick microsoft security essentials and zone alarm on instead. Anyone have any recent experience of McAfee ?

[daveeb]

Having just glanced down a few threads in the pc security section i think i've found my answer already !

[sam]

:-)

[sam]

it works fine, but its a bit chunky

[Simon]

I tried it once, but like Sam said, it was quite 'clunky'.

[Rik]

Resource hog, dump it, Dave.

[daveeb]

Thanks all 

[davy51]

Its not the best on the market for the same price
There are better

[daveeb]

Its not the best on the market for the same price
There are better

I'm getting it for "free" but i still think i'll ditch it and use MSE/Zona alarm instead.

[Simon]

See?  They can't even give it away! 

[Rik]

But still they try.

[daveeb]

Mr Dell definitely needs to have a word with mr mcafee 

[Rik]

 

[Clive]

My Dell laptop and Acer netbook both came installed with McAfee but they were given their marching orders on first boot.  Bloatware at its worst! 

[daveeb]

My Dell laptop and Acer netbook both came installed with McAfee but they were given their marching orders on first boot.  Bloatware at its worst! 

Clive did you find that you needed to use the mcafee removal tool after uninstalling to remove any stubborn bits of it ?