I don't remember who said it, but I think this is more true than false: "there are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked and those that don't."
The fact that Kaspersky was hacked is probably a good thing. I've seen firsthand the incredible measures that a company that has been compromised will put in place following an attack, and frankly they're probably (now) about as safe as one can get. There are exceptions (rhymes with "pony") but I think in general being hacked is a wake-up call. Even still, as I said, I'm moving to Bitdefender. Both still are tops in almost every test I've seen. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] McAfee Security Suite Thanks guys. I've always avoided McAfee in the past, just wondering if this freebie from Cox had any worth. My wife is using it despite what I've told her.....Free is a dangerous lure.... I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials (and MBAM). They use Kaspersky at work, but after I found out their server (Kaspersky's) had been hacked so well, they had no idea how long it had been hacked, I decided against them. What's good now? On 10/31/2015 11:29 AM, Greg Sevart wrote: > 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 >
