Posted on 07/03/2009 8:11:11 PM PDT by Gomez
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Oh, this should be fun.
So, merely downloading the latest virus definitions from McAfee apparently contained some sort of malicious code that caused Windows PC’s to go into an “autoimmune” attack, basically?
Makes me glad I’m a Mac guy. Not much harm can come, unless I’m dumb enough to give user authorization.
Never used McLafee. Removed it from all my computers the first time I booted them up.
McAfee is just a big virus.
It happened to my computer this week. I re-installed McAffee, ok now.
What do you use?
Yeah me neither. I used it for awhile but it was such a load to the system. AVG is it for me and while it has false positives none of them have ever crippled my system.
I hope this doesn’t happen to me because that would really su(*!@!@#$%^&*()[NO CARRIER]
Ditto that. I don’t use any AV.
+1
Bit Defender 2009 is even worse. If I let my computer sit for a while, it would take a full 5-7 minutes to load Thunderbird and Firefox. I HATED that program. Talk about a memory and processor hog, it was the pits.
Yeah & the gov wants all of my personal information to put on their national database. Sounds like a good idea. I mean computers are so much smarter than people.
AVG Free anti-virus did this same thing to my pc some months back. I had to delete the program and all files, and get a completely different anti-virus program to protect myself.
Is this like Nanny MacPhee???
hehehe!
A spokesperson from McAfee had this to say: “Oooops”
BTTT.
I hate MacAfee. I had their service until they kept billing my credit card account multiple times without my authorization. I had to go through hell to get the charges reversed and get them to stop. That company and their customer support are BAD NEWS. Beware!
How long ago?
I use AVG Free and had a major malfunction about 6 months ago. We weren’t able to pinpoint what the cause was but I trashed the computer, everything was going bonkers on it....
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