McAfee

[Flint]

Originally Posted by tw

Somehow I am supposed to know what it does only from the Trademark name?

Classic. I thought I'd give McAfee a spin, because it was on sale at Costco, and boy was I in for a shock. There aren't any controls! You can't tell it to do anything, and it won't tell you what it's doing. It's like they expect you to think that PC security is something that can be done with an "ON" button. Okay, McAfee is "ON" so now I don't have to worry about anything. Yeah, right. Give me a goddamn "advanced tab" - how hard is that?

I am troubled by this trend in software designed for people that aren't expected to know how to use it. I don't like "just trust us" because, I don't.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Your in the minority Flint. Most of the great unwashed don't want to know, they just want it to work. Not only the security, but everything including the PC.

The same applies to their cars and everything else they use, they just want it to work.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Flint

Classic. I thought I'd give McAfee a spin, ... There aren't any controls! You can't tell it to do anything, and it won't tell you what it's doing.

Actually it does have controls and it does 'tell you' what it is doing - somewhat. But you must know how to find that information. Like every observed security package, it is either user unfriendly, will not provide useful 'help' information, or does not provide many protection features so that users would be 'pleased'.

McAfee has one tool I like. Enter the URL or IP address to see geographically where the 'intruder' is coming from. Is that IP address an existing intruder or simply from my executing program? That tool makes it faster to answer the question ... if you can remember the illogical sequence of mysterous mouse clicks to get to it.

[Elspode]

A combination of AVG Free, Pest Patrol and Zone Alarm Suite Free keeps me totally trouble free, and I go to some pretty weird web sites.