McAfee AV now updates daily

Messing with those downloads sure seems like a big hassle for a home user to go through just to try to be sure they are updated properly, like the hassle of editing the registry to get rid of the splash screen, and the hassle of depending on ActiveX to operate anything thru the infamous McAfee Security Center. I've been using VirusScan for about four years now and have begun to wonder if I might be a masochist or something.

I think I'll be trialing NOD32 soon, since I already run Ewido guard and the combination of the two together sounds good.

 

If you purchased it within the past 30 days you can get a full refund ... I'm considering that possibility myself.

Acadia

 

Me also. Any idea which AV you will be switching to?

 

Why...KAV or NOD32 or BitDefender of course!

 

If I switch, probably NOD, since KAV hosed my system with its $%@# ADstreams.

Acadia

 

Why not consider KAV clones? Y'know GDATA/eXtendia AVK, CyberScrub AntiVirus and stuff...or better participate in the ArcaVir miniquestion contest tomorrow at 5pm EST and win free MKS_Vir...

 

Is GDATA available in the US, the last time I checked it wasn't?

Acadia

 

Yes it is that is what I use, but the updating is not every 3 ours unless you get premium support. But I like it enough.

 

Well only online I guess...and eXtendia has next-to-zero support...maybe CyberScrub...and F-Secure or eScan?

 

Acadia, look here for AVK Profesional 2005 30 day trial in downloads, no updating in trial though. I've tried it's and definitely not the drag on resources that twin-engine av's usually are (at least here).

 

How much is this darn thing, all I keep seeing are prices in Euro?! And 50mb, that's bigger than Norton!!

Acadia

 

Yeah, I'm seriously concidering NOD myself. I liked it except for the High Capacity/Efficiency thing in the HTTP scanning. I always felt I had to check it to make sure everything was set to High Efficiency. Paranoid I guess.

 

Found a new twist on this in Mc forums: seems that the daily corp updates work on home Version 7 but not on V8 or V9. So I guess ya'll can buy V7 for $5 somewhere and be good to go!

http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=42311

 

How interesting. So it sounds like all enterprise users can update daily automatically or manually, home users before version 8 can update daily automatically or manually, but home users using the latest versions of either 8 or 9 can only update weekly... I wish Mcafee would be a little more clear about what's going on. In the meantime, I'll continue my practice of only recommending Mcafee if the user has access to the enterprise version

 

Total agreement !!!

 

Serious question here . Someone said they would murder for Arcavir . I have never seen nor heard anything good about this . What have I missed ? Thanks in advance .

 

50 mb s ? WOW !!!!!

 

That's way too bloaded... wow...
F-Secure with tripple-engine and a firewall is 35mb Ok, still much but still 15mb less then this puppy, and more included...

 

Yes my friend that was me
I tried Acravir is some little tests and I like it... The detection rate is very good, and I love the interface... And it seems to be good on recources... But the other thing is... I just love the GUI wonderful done...

 

Me too...come on stormbyte post question already!

 

Thanks for the replies . Very kind . have a great day