Wow, that's pretty scary. Over the last 5 years or so, MSE went from good to adequate to practically worthless. Most AV tests now use it as the baseline to represent inadequate protection.
For Steve: avoid McAfee. Protection is adequate but system impact is atrocious. Kaspersky and Bitdefender both have top notch protection without killing the system. I've had some weird issues with Kaspersky, so I'm moving to Bitdefender exclusively. I strongly recommend running MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) in addition to AV protection. In practice, I think MBAM is probably more effective than AV, but both should still be used. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Julian Zottl Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] McAfee Security Suite The company I work for (about 63k employees, so not small) did an internal study and has now switched totally over to BitLocker (instead of PGP) and MS Security Essentials (known as System Center End Point in the enterprise). It's all I've been using for years and best of all, it's free :) Julian Sent from my iProduct, cause I'm iSpecial.... But not in that ishort bus kind of way... > On Oct 31, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cox is offering McAfee for free for multiple devices. I've never thought very much of McAfee, but would this be worth it? > > Thanks...Steve
