What if you went to a Ford dealer and walked over to the employee parking lot and noticed that not one employee drives a Ford. You would begin to lose confidence in their brand. Guess what? There’s an anti-virus and internet security company who doesn’t believe in their own brand, either.
McAfee, one of the leading providers for anti-virus and security software is not all they’re cracked up to be. In fact, McAfee was recently punked when they were egged on to run a test on their own network for security vulnerabilities. McAfee’s network failed the XSS (CROSS-Site Scripting) vulnerability test, which causes a user’s Web browser to execute a malicious script, according to ZDNet.
McAfee is not using McAfee security tools on their own properties. Why not? They must have no confidence in their own product. I guess McAfee doesn’t think XSS is a big issue. They’re wrong; it’s a major issue and you would think that McAfee would be writing the play book on this issue.
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If you’re looking for an excellent anti-virus and anti-spam product, check out ETrust 8 made by Computer Associates. To read more about ETrust go here.
Editor Update (5/14/08 9:08PM, by RT): It would seem the earlier statement that McAfee does not use their own products is inaccurate. According to ZDNet’s article here, McAfee ignores sites that are vulnerable to XSS exploits and continues to certify them “HackerSafe,” including some of their own. It’s not that they aren’t using their own software on their properties, it’s that they are using it, and that’s what makes them vulnerable. Sorry for the confusion. We still hold that McAfee’s products suck.
[Frank J likes eTrust. Personally, I’ve heard good things about Avast!, AVG, ClamWin, or Nod32. Of course, some users would even say they don’t run anti-virus at all, opting for a tightly-secured system and good browsing habits. Let us know in the comments what anti-virus you prefer, and why! -The Raging Tech]
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Thats hilarious, I use Norton anyways.
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I think we all know who Leo Laporte is? He states at time that you don’t need to run it just curtail your actions and police yourself on the web. I highly disagree with him but you get the point.
This article is completely false. I know from first-hand experience that McAfee utilizes all of their products in their own environment. The person that wrote this article is either ignorant of the facts or an absolute liar!
The Truth is completely false. I know from first-hand experience that he is a McAfee employee in his own environment. The person that wrote that post is ignorant of how obvious it is and an absolute liar!
@The Truth
@ The Lies
Both of you are apparently from the same location, so who’s a liar? McAfee in fact doesn’t use their own products. You can read this from a very reliable source called ZDnet.com.
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I just recently switched from Trend Micro to AVG free edition. what a load off my system resources. Heh I am glad I do not and have never, used McAfee.
This article makes no sense at all. Really….what does it matter if Mcafee employees drive Fords
The whole “I know from first-hand experience” bit is hilarious. But seriously, if you ever want to be taken seriously, link us to some sources. Prove to us McAfee uses their own products. Your word is worthless, this is the internet. Facts, give them to us.
I don’t use any antivirus software anymore. They all bog down the resources and use redundant and non-essential services that you can’t turn off or the rest of the software will go nuts and bug you about it until it is back up and running. And yes I’ve had viruses since going without, but I took care of it. I didn’t run to a tech help desk or someone else. You have to know what you are doing and no what to get rid of. I use a few simple tools that can point me in the right direction of where to look. process explorer, autoruns, regedit, spybot, avast cleaner, root kit revealer, ccleaner, and a separate installation of xp or linux. They do their stuff and then I do the rest. It takes a lot of skill and knowledge to fix a virus or malicious software. Not just another tool. Do some research people.
Not patronizing their own? Lolz! I used mc cafe once and it slowed down my computer :(
I only use it once because it comes for free when I baught a new pc before. I didn’t like it much. I use avast today. I owe the killing of worm virus that spreads out over my network to avast and until now I use the software.
Whilst I use Ubuntu most of the time, my windows box runs Avast! (An antivirus is a necessity when you exchange pen-drives with the same rate I do with my mates!
My parents I advised to buy Nod32, as at the time its heuristic scanning was the best, which whilst not very useful, is at least more useful than the purely signature based competition.
And both Nod and Avast both use much less resources than Norton!
Your comparison makes no sense. It would be like going to a Ford dealership and noticing that the employees walk to work, since you didn’t mention any alternate anti-virus software that they’re using in place of McAfee.
Eset Nod32 is hands down the best!
what is an antivirus?
I use Linux – best antivirus there is. But for my Windoze friends I recommend NoD32 – the BEST antivirii out there. I also recommend Avast! if they don’t want to pay for NoD32. I used to give out copies of Symantec’s Corporate Antivirus – but I found it wasn’t nearly as good as NoD32. I have always despised McAfee. Norton’s products are horrible wastes of processor cycles. Linux FTW!
Walking to work is a lifestyle choice, not driving the brand of auto that you sell is a statement about the company you work for or the quality of its merchandise. The metaphor makes perfect sense to anyone who reads more than the cheatsheets for whatever video game they’re playing at the moment.
It’s always possible that these employees use other anti-virus software to scope out the competition and analyse shortcomings in their own software. I mean, if one does get through the competitor’s net I’m sure these employees will know how to deal with it.
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“This article makes no sense at all. Really….what does it matter if Mcafee employees drive Fords”
I really hope that was a joke…ANYWAY, I’m using Avast! and it works just fine.
(And is this the ‘new’ owner of techjaws, or are you the original domain-namer of it?)
McAfee is a bitch, brand new computer, upon removing McAfee demo, web browsing ports are secretly closed, “Oh hey, dont want to use McAfee, well I guess you dont need Firefox either then”.
@mc2w: Frank J is the original domain-namer, so to speak. Tech Jaws has been re-envisioned, and what you see is the result.
Ha! Noobs and your viruses.
Virus, whats up with those f**kin viruses.
Everytime I get a virus, my moma gives me some Robitussin
I’m the good browsing habits person, I scan every once in a while though.. and particularly when I notice a new process I hadn’t seen before
I got McAfee with my computer.. 20 mins in my computer flashed up serious warnings about viruses ect ect.. so i installed Avast NEVER had a problem since..
and Avast said McAfee was a virus
i agree
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I think most everyone leaving messages on this site are idots! Come on! All this back-and-forth garabge about McAfee is crap and this one is better or that one is better. The same old nonsense I’ve heard all my life. The place I get my olil changed telling me not to use Fram oil filters because they leak – total crap… guys arguing which car is better – the Camaro or Firebird. Which truck – GMC or Chevy. All those vehicles are made by General Motors. GMC and Checy trucks are even built on the same production line. I could go on for ever. Linux is rock solid and MS is garbage. Granted there is some vaildty to that, but if Linux was the defacto OS it would be a mess as well. Unless you REALLY know then getting it your head what is best is a waste of time.
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