It's popular because it's the most common bloat-ware shipped on new PC's these days!
SAVCE is what I am using but would consider NOD32 or Kapersky or nothing before I'd go anywhere near a McAwful product. Been of that mind about MA for over 10 years in fact. Unless you have a business need for Outlook, and even then I'd use it only for the specific business need not normal email, Thunderbird is much better & free. Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > This is an interesting conversation. You guys are always jumping me > when I say thing about how IT pros act like gods on PCs in corps. Well, > ITs are the ones who influence the selection of such software. > Obviously, IT pros are NOT of one opinion on what's good and what's not. > Personally, I've never liked McAfee. It doesn't even seem to make sense > in terms of how to use it. But it's free to me. And other than this > problem with Outlook (which, is likely the source of the problem > anyway), it's been working fine for months. > > BTW, this is VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0. > <snip>