McAfee

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!... How good is it at cleaning once threats are found hopefully equal to its detection rate,but can anyone Clarify this

 

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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)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Mcafee is ligher and quicker than it use to be.

 

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. 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.