MSE earns prestigous August Virus Bulletin 100 Award

freaky88 said:

why do you sound so mad everytime you post something?

He may sound ANGRY, but he certainly does not sound MAD.

karlsnooks said:

freaky88 said:

why do you sound so mad everytime you post something?

He may sound ANGRY, but he certainly does not sound MAD.

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Petey7 said:

Part of it is because I get sick of saying some stuff over and over again and people just not listening. I clearly stated the McAfee was bad product, I stated why I thought so, and that most people agree. And what I hear back is "I still think they're good." Its like if I said "Don't drink cyanide because you will die very quickly" and you said "Oh, well, I think I'll drink it anyways.

The other part of it is, I have my own reasons for being mad at the world in general right now. Some people on here already know what that reason is and I don't really feel like talking about it here.

In all fairness, there are times where a normally bad product will work completely fine for some users. I've never used McAfee, but I have used Norton, which many say is a bad product, but it worked perfectly fine for me. Of course, I would rather take MSE since it's free and has proved itself on several occasions, but I, by no means, am against Norton. It has stopped viruses and when I uninstalled it to put MSE on instead, Norton didn't have any problem uninstalling like others claimed it did.

In defense of Petey7, it does get tiresome repeating the same info over and over that should be either common knowledge, or easily searchable. For example, here in August of 2010, I can't believe so many people have to ask if their product key will work with x86 and x64. I also can't believe so many people ask what version of Windows they should run, as if we had any insight into their uses, budget, necessary software, etc. It does get very tiresome, but maybe this comes from being in IT for so many years, where people expect to have everything spoonfed to them over and over. I think I need to switch professions and become a chef.

I understand why in this case Petey7 is not his joyful self. Not only on this site but you can Google or Bing many many sites and read the same horror stories all over the world that Mc Afee has caused. I call it Malware. The hell one has to go through to remove all of it, it's close to being a rootkit. If some one is having luck with Mc Affe why wait around until it crashes your computer. Then there are those that read all the good and even great reports about MSE and think it can't be because it's Microsoft. I like Microsoft that's why I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 64. Just a though, it wasn't long ago Mc Afee got caught giving subscription information to a side company they owned and who knows where it went from there. They apologized for there error and mistake in judgment. That from a company that you let take care of your security on your computers. That boat don't float in my world or computer. I'm done, if you need more there is a great big internet you can find the information.

Hi, totally new here.

I'm going to speak on the idea of people who kept McAfee in the past -- a lot of us DON'T know better.

Do you know how I found out the upgrade to 2010 for them might be death for my Windows 7 PC (as I got it from Dell)? A post in the Malwarebytes forum by someone that had it happen to them. From that, I shut off my Mcafee automatic updates, and potentially saved my PC.

I've been browsing various forums to see if there was a 'fix' for this, nothing on McAfee's site, and eventually, I found my way here.

It's great to know MSE is well-respected. I'll probably shut off McAfee and try their uninstall tool, then install MSE and use it, the Windows Firewall, and MBAM as my on-demand scanner.

But simply put, a lot of us don't know PCs very well. We assume McAfee is a decent product because it's offered (and for Dell, it's the ONLY choice, they don't even offer Trend anymore), and we aren't in-depth PC-savvy people.

Still, the posts and information here are incredibly valuable. Thank you so much for that.

Wish me luck this weekend :)

Take it and run