About mcafee.

Well is there anyway to get rid of the firewall they give so I can use ZA and use their antivirus? Or is that just impossible ?

 

ive tried it once, they dont like it much it says on install i belive that you need to remove ZA or whatever because it conflicts. I tried to get around it, but i couldnt do it, or be bothered that much to do it.

Dont like mcaffee very much

 

Personally, I wouldn't use McAfee AV at all. There are, from most accounts, much better free antivirus programs out there (AVG is popular here).

I'd even warrant stuff like http://housecall.antivirus.com would be more reliable than McAfee. McAfee comes off as much more interested in your money, not protecting your PC.

 

Well AVG has let me down -.- and if I can't have my ZA then forget it ^_^. Thanks guys.

Regards,
-BB.

 

I used Macaffee. I dumped after about a year of using it and putting up with their greed. The final straw was that their firewall leaves your Ident info wide open to the world. Zonealarm does not. As to the AV, I'm happy with Avast. They send out frequent virus file updates (Like three to four a week. They had the fizzer worm covered the day after I heard about it, very cool)plus one application update--all automatic.

 

I personally hate Mcaffee and Norton AV myself. Both are serious resource hogs, and virus updates are only good for one year. Then you have to pay to have the "privelege" of updating your virus definitions. I do know that tons of money is poured into updating the virus definitions (mostly creating their own viruses) so I completely trust mcaffe and norton in that arena. I remember this from a recent PC Magazine article (dislike the mag, got it as a gift) with interviews from Symantec and Mcaffee.

 

Well I've tried tons of AV and haven't been satisfied by any but Norton but it is far too much of a resource hog. I've used

F-Secure version
Mcafee (disagrees with my stuff too much)
Kaspersky
RAV
F-Prot
Panda Titanium
AVG
BitDefender

Okay well I have a few requirements....no conflicts with my computer obviously, when I disable it, I want it disabled. Good AV and AT in one. It can be bloaty but I rather not. It doesn't have to be free. It should have exclusion features for it's autoscan and manual scan. It also MUST ask me what to do, not auto repair. It shouldn't just quarantine, clean or block. Well thanks in advance. I've settled for norton now.

Regards
-BB.