My Mcaffee Antivirus has just expired. I never had a firewall and everthing has been just fine with no problems for the past year.
I went to best buy and they had on sale Mcaffee's viruscan and firewall as a package deal for 29.99.
The guy there wanted to sell me however PCScillen for 40 bucks and it was only the viruscan.
The reason why he said that the PCScillen was better was because he said it had less system requirements which inturn would make the computer run faster. Is he right?
Also he said that windows has a built in firewall. What do y'all computer dudes and dude ettes think HMMN?
2006-09-09 07:10:28 · 11 answers · asked by Beano4aReason 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Guys at Best Buy work on a commission, of course he would try to sell you the higher priced product.
McAfee will do you just fine and that is a very very good price.
The built-in Windows firewall is junk, it only filters incoming packets not outgoing. Every other firewall will filter both.
Quick, run down and pick up the McAfee, while it is still on sale.
And I would report Best Buy to your state's Consumer Board. Putting something on sale and then trying to move you to a higher priced product is illegal...it's called "Bait and Switch"!
2006-09-09 09:25:49 · answer #1 · answered by jibberjabar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow no one here answers your question. Instead of buying McAfee or even Trend's antivirus for 40 bucks get Trend Micro Pc Cillin Internet SEcurity 2006. It is the best out there. McAfee and Norton are bloatware, CA and Zonealarm arent well known and are not as effective.
2006-09-09 07:39:48 · answer #2 · answered by jim 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Norton kills resources. I mean, running in the background it will slow down your computer. McAffee will do the same. PCCillen is crap. does the same exact thing.
AVG is free and fast, and good, and it works..
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/10/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
but just use the built in windows firewall, it will be sufficient enough, the rest is just a waste of money.
2006-09-09 07:20:36 · answer #3 · answered by #Reistlehr- 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd suggest f-prot if you want antivirus light on your system
resources they are great company to deal with and support
is excellent. If your going to go the software firewall route and
not purchase a router or hardware firewall I'd suggest agnitums
outpost pro firewall top notch.
2006-09-09 08:23:25 · answer #4 · answered by markm 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Norton is the best. These stores sometimes have internal promotions and the employees have to sell so much of a certain product to make their quota. Stick with the tried and true. Norton is best. McAfee is good too. You get what you pay for. Don't skimp.
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2016-09-30 12:33:22 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-09 07:19:51 · answer #7 · answered by Big-Tony 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you get comcast internet service,they will give you mcafee for free and all the updates current.
2006-09-09 07:43:45 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DUDE, GET "ZONE ALARM",, i had the zone alarm for a year, and i had no problems with it,,i would recommend it ,, so check it out..or get JAMAICAN RUM,, AND A BOX OF CUBAN CIGARS,,TO SEND FIDEL CASTRO, Smoke signals for HELP.. about computer BUGS,, he would get them out..have a great weekend.
2006-09-09 07:16:49 · answer #9 · answered by litehmusicdj 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
AVG Anti-Virus, it has superb virus protection, good updating engine, and superb email monitoring... http://grisoft.com
2006-09-09 08:57:43 · answer #10 · answered by Joe10 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋