McAfee

[DVD+R]

Years ago I used McAfee, from round about version 7, but swayed away from it when they incorporated the Security Center, however today I'm testing out Internet Security 2009 as av-comparatives.org shows that McAfee VirusScan Plus has an extremely high detection rate, and seldom false positives :) Since the AV version 13.3.127 is also included in the Security Suite. BUT!...:blink: How good is it at cleaning once threats are found ??? hopefully equal to its detection rate,but can anyone Clarify this ???

[hawki]

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According to the only cleaning test I am aware of, Mcafee VirusScan 2008 was poor at cleaning... dunno if 2009 changed that.

http://www.anti-malware-test.com/?q=taxonomy/term/14


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[Fly]

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According to the only cleaning test I am aware of, Mcafee VirusScan 2008 was poor at cleaning... dunno if 2009 changed that.

http://www.anti-malware-test.com/?q=taxonomy/term/14


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Seriously, Eset at 0 % ? ::)

I don't have much faith, if any, in www.anti-malware-test.com .

How do you define cleaning ?

I have used McAfee software and have been hit by two drive-by-download attacks (in both cases malicious scripts, the scripts attempted to download trojans, which had actual names). Was that prevention or cleaning ?
'After the event', my computer was clean.
I think the first case was with McAfee 2008, the second 2009.

But on the other hand, I could disable the real-time protection by killing the mcshield.exe process in the task manager (Windows XP Home Edition) ::)

[hawki]

-{ Quote: "Seriously, Eset at 0 % ? ::)

I don't have much faith, if any, in www.anti-malware-test.com .

How do you define cleaning ?

I have used McAfee software and have been hit by two drive-by-download attacks (in both cases malicious scripts, the scripts attempted to download trojans, which had actual names). Was that prevention or cleaning ?
'After the event', my computer was clean.
I think the first case was with McAfee 2008, the second 2009.

But on the other hand, I could disable the real-time protection by killing the mcshield.exe process in the task manager (Windows XP Home Edition) ::)" }-

Take a look at the detailed results in the pdf and you will better understand the results and how "cleaned" is used.

[vijayind]

McAfee detection has really improved in 2009 thanks to their in-the-cloud Artemis. Due to which the scored Advanced+ in on-demand scan test in AV-comparatives Feb'09 test.
See:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests

[Fly]

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I don't really care. Eset at 0 % ? That says enough for me.

[TrojanHunter]

Mcafee is ligher and quicker than it use to be.

[raven211]

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Weird enough when I installed it (VirusScan Plus without SiteAdvisor or FW as I'm running only HW and AVG LinkScanner), it would report that there was virus protection present. :blink: I certainly didn't uncheck that too, and it couldn't fix it on its own. Ofc I didn't expect that, so I didn't save the installation file. :D