[dayglored]

Yikes.

[dayglored]

McAfee and Windows 10 - what a combo ... PING!

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[relictele]

This company and its products have been rubbish since the days of DOS.

[apocalypto]

for later

[PAR35]

I gave up a few years ago, and went with the Microsoft product. They aren’t going to do any more spying with that than they already do with Windows and Office. I would join in calling Norton and McAfee part of the problem, not a solution. Before I went to Microsoft, I used AVG and Avast for a few years - much better than the resource hogs from Norton or McAfee.

[Bob434]

it is interestingness that things like spy-bot and such didn’t detect these web beacons apparently?

[pepsi_junkie]

I do not trust McAfee. I’ve had them installed on various PCs and I consider them an infection. They cripple my machine as bad as any virus would and I don’t trust them with my data either. So how do you define malware? Seems to fit.

[Paladin2]

Do Ghostery and NoScript extinguish these Beacons?

[rarestia]

Windows Defender, built into the OS since Windows 7, is now an enterprise-class endpoint protection suite and works as good as and even better than McAfee and Norton/Symantec offerings when comparing system runtime efficiency. Most modern threats come from malware. Viruses are few and far between nowadays.

McAfee is installed “free” on most new computers. As I’ve said recently, “if it’s free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.” This proves that point.

[martin_fierro]

John McAfee seems like a reasonable sort.

[Swordmaker]

To quote dayglored for his Windows Ping List, "YIKES!" McAfee's uses Web Beacons to track users and serve advertising to users, apparently mostly Windows users, but there's nothing to stop them from doing the same to Apple Mac users. . . and of course, there are a lot of Mac users who run Windows virtualized in a sandbox. — PING!

McAfee A/V for Apple?
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