Intel Buy McAfee

See now this is why OSX is far superior to Windows, it doesn't let companies make millions/billions off an OS full of holes for viruses/adawares etc.

Remember kids, once you go MAC you never go back. Silly programs like an Anti Virus or Ad-aware are not needed on OSX. ;):D




On a serious note, I'd use AVG in personal/business any day over McCrappy but if its got the hold over corporate then Intel could go somewhere with it, I hope.
 
AmTechFox said:
See now this is why OSX is far superior to Windows, it doesn't let companies make millions/billions off an OS full of holes for viruses/adawares etc.

Remember kids, once you go MAC you never go back. Silly programs like an Anti Virus or Ad-aware are not needed on OSX. ;):D




On a serious note, I'd use AVG in personal/business any day over McCrappy but if its got the hold over corporate then Intel could go somewhere with it, I hope.
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Oh shut up.


Its the traditionally tiny market share that has kept OSX so clean. If it had a historical basis of market share that microsoft has it would be in the same position
 
ac1d1ty said:
Oh shut up.


Its the traditionally tiny market share that has kept OSX so clean. If it had a historical basis of market share that microsoft has it would be in the same position
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Did you miss the sarcasm?

Maybe they bought McAfee to close them down *crosses fingers*...
 
AmTechFox said:
See now this is why OSX is far superior to Windows, it doesn't let companies make millions/billions off an OS full of holes for viruses/adawares etc.

Remember kids, once you go MAC you never go back. Silly programs like an Anti Virus or Ad-aware are not needed on OSX. ;):D




On a serious note, I'd use AVG in personal/business any day over McCrappy but if its got the hold over corporate then Intel could go somewhere with it, I hope.
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You'd use AVG over McAfee in a corporate environment? *Shudder*
 
I still remember when McAfee first came into their world back in the day. I remember their early dos solutions, and watched them as the moved onto windows and upwards.

Hell even MoD use McAfee and have done for years. I see more McAfee equipped PC's now than dreaded Norton's thank god. It will be interesting to see what Intel do with the company now.
 
Did McAfee do that 'V Shield' program that often appeared in the corporate environment? I quite liked that because it was lightweight. Symantec did something similar too. I was never keen on their end user products though.
 
My bad I've actually again got my wires crossed, its Norton that is the devil AV. Having to download an uninstall program so you can safely remove it when in fact most of it is still on your system is outrageous.

McAfee V-Sheild is what my old company used, and it wasn't as bad. The Dell computer loaded with it did struggle sometimes with it.

As for AVG, whats wrong with using it in corporate? I of course don't mean the free version but the proper paid one. Isn't it universally accepted as the No. 1 AV out there?
 
Intel are pretty big on the old networking chips, so maybe integrating more AV support/ aligned features might be an interesting route instead of the CPU.

AV is part of an internet security solution, so I guess they want to have a complete package.
 
AmTechFox said:
As for AVG, whats wrong with using it in corporate? I of course don't mean the free version but the proper paid one. Isn't it universally accepted as the No. 1 AV out there?
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AVG isnt the best consumer AV, its detection rates have been appalling. As for corporate AV, you want different things such as easy distribution, policy management and support.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
AVG isnt the best consumer AV, its detection rates have been appalling. As for corporate AV, you want different things such as easy distribution, policy management and support.
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You also want to buy what everyone else buys. E.g. that recent McAfee false positive debacle - no IT manager got fired because of that. If they'd have bought AVG and a similar issue had arisen, questions would have been asked like "why where we affected and no-one else was?"
 
I'm sure Intel will probably re-brand it under a different name and just sort out all the current issues that McAfee suffers from.

I'm looking forward to seeing what they're going to do!
 
AmTechFox said:
As for AVG, whats wrong with using it in corporate? I of course don't mean the free version but the proper paid one. Isn't it universally accepted as the No. 1 AV out there?
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http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report25.pdf
http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report26.pdf

There's no real "best" anti-virus, just a collection of very good ones (G Data/Avira/Kapersky/TrustPort). I put G Data on my laptop recently and it seems pretty decent, trouble is my work's remote access software doesn't recognise it, and claims I've got no AV. :(
 
I know someone who has McAfee on their system, and tbh it is awfull, I've had it millions of years ago and he's had it time and time again, and it just seems... well broke...

I stick to what I know... Avast AV. Maybe Intel will perhaps make McAfee more appealing...
 
Intel wont bother changing the software too much. They'll have bought the IP and the R&D division in reality. McAfee brand will stay as is, and I imagine operate very similarly to how it continues at the moment.

Intels bag has never been software. They'll look to use McAfee in a similar way to VT with antivirus scanning in hardware, on NIC's etc.
 
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