McAfee VS Norton Antivirus

[Vulcan]

Yeah it's enterprise

I think I should have mentioned that in the first post 

Then ignore all the mcafee-is-crap comments in this thread. They're all talking about the retail product, I doubt whether many (if any) have had any experience with enterprise. Make sure you get the anti-spyware plugin, it's usually a separate install, plus make sure artemis is enabled - you'll have the best AV product available on the market IMHO (best detection and protection with low CPU overheads).

I use mcafee enterprise on all my PC's and have found it significantly superior to even NOD32.

[guncrasher]

I like eset better run it on 3 computers. And the 3 licenses cost me less than one of mccaffey.


Semp

[BaldEagl]

I used to get McAfee free from Comcast so installed it on all three of my machines and that was after already using McAfee for years.  Then Comcast decided to offer Norton instead of McAfee.  I resisted the change and managed to go about two months after Comcast made the changeover.  Finally I got the notice... no more updates for you.

I was trying to decide what to do.  I'm poor and needed a cheap solution and am not pleased with the current free stuff (AVG and Avast) so I decided instead of using Norton I'd bite the bullet and stay with McAfee.  I was expecting $50-60 for one year and if that was going to be the case I was also considering giving Nod32 a try.  I went to the McAfee site and DL'd a 2 year, 3 computer subscription for $20!  Sorry but I couldn't pass up a deal like that.  I guess they really wanted to thwart the Comcast changeover to Norton.

For all the complaints about McAfee I've never had a problem with it and I leave it turned on 100% of the time, even while playing.  The only thing I turn off is the auto-updater and instead do updates manually twice a week and have never had a virus.

[guncrasher]

I used to get McAfee free from Comcast so installed it on all three of my machines and that was after already using McAfee for years.  Then Comcast decided to offer Norton instead of McAfee.  I resisted the change and managed to go about two months after Comcast made the changeover.  Finally I got the notice... no more updates for you.

I was trying to decide what to do.  I'm poor and needed a cheap solution and am not pleased with the current free stuff (AVG and Avast) so I decided instead of using Norton I'd bite the bullet and stay with McAfee.  I was expecting $50-60 for one year and if that was going to be the case I was also considering giving Nod32 a try.  I went to the McAfee site and DL'd a 2 year, 3 computer subscription for $20!  Sorry but I couldn't pass up a deal like that.  I guess they really wanted to thwart the Comcast changeover to Norton.

For all the complaints about McAfee I've never had a problem with it and I leave it turned on 100% of the time, even while playing.  The only thing I turn off is the auto-updater and instead do updates manually twice a week and have never had a virus.

you got lucky.  I had mcafee on my old computer, gave it to my mom, renewal of mcafee just this may was 79 for one year.  I have 3 licences for nod 32, renewal is up next month it is 61 for one year all 3 or 112 (i believe) for 2 years.

semp

[TilDeath]

Then ignore all the mcafee-is-crap comments in this thread. They're all talking about the retail product, I doubt whether many (if any) have had any experience with enterprise. Make sure you get the anti-spyware plugin, it's usually a separate install, plus make sure artemis is enabled - you'll have the best AV product available on the market IMHO (best detection and protection with low CPU overheads).

I use mcafee enterprise on all my PC's and have found it significantly superior to even NOD32.

Please provide a link of a company that has rated this and is proving your statements.  I provided a link to a white paper as well as the name of the company that prepaired them and NO THIS WAS NOT A HOME PRODUCT as you state.  It also showed their method of testing etc.

The McAfee is crap statement I make because of first hand experience with the product, both COMMERCIAL and HOME.  Numerous statements from customers, seeing systems infested that are using McAfee.  I invite you to show me where McAfee has out performed ESET either home or commercial.  NOD32 and even Eset Smart Suite both have a smaller foot print then McAfee, thus lowering your systems overhead.  Also how is it that ESET has not been by passed by a In the Wild and McAfee has.

I sell a few systems a day for, Home, Commercial, Industrial and Office environments.  Since my name is on the line when I am asked to recommend a product, when asked about anti-virus Never anything but ESET.

TD

[Vulcan]

I guess I needed to prove my point again about ESET over McAfee (Mc Crappie).  Below is a link to a PDF that is put out by Passmark Software (Google them).  They are a software evaluation company.  The PDF is complete with live links to each of the makers website of the software reviewed.  ESET beat McAfee in speed, size, ability to catch, lesser false positives etc etc.

Since NOD32 of any flavor has been made it has never been by passed by an "In-The-Wild" virus (this is a new virus reported by at least two independent sources), where as McAfee has over 70 failures.

The Link for the report http://www.tdcomputersystems.com/passmark_june_2010.pdf

TD

LOL I've seen NOD32 miss stuff (I tried nod for a couple of years), plus the AV Comparatives retrospective test gives it a 52%, that means 48% of new virus's got past the sig set at the time. 52% is still a good score, but it highlights your comment about in the wild virus's vs nod32 is pure BS.

AND... AND... (this is the good part) the Passmark review you linked too does NOT review the Enterprise product LOL (it also references the AV Comps tests which also do NOT test the Enterprise product).

I seriously doubt your experience with the Enterprise product if you cannot tell the difference from the screenshots shown in that passmark report. McAfee do several products, there's the retail consumer stuff, small business (total protection) package (seems to come in two flavours btw), then the enterprise product. The enterprise product is significantly different too the others. It does AV, AS is optional, and in 8.5i includes the artemis engine which is extremely good at finding new threats (unfortunately AV Comparatives do not test from what I can see, nor do they test enterprise).

I sell security solutions from SMB through to Large Enterprise/Goverment. So my name is on the line too . Yes for retail and smb clients Nod32 is the choice - mcafee enterprise is not a viable choice for these users (min 25 node license iirc).