I have a free year of Mcafee antivirus I once heard was better than Norton.?

Question

I may as well use it right? Do I wait for the Norton to run out? Can I load the Mcafee when the Norton is still in there?

Answer 1

Norton will probably prevent you from downloading Mcafee while it's still on your computer. you're going to have to uninstall norton if you want mcafee on your computer. and it's true Mcafee is better than norton, at least according to a recent list put out by the latest issue (sept 2007) of Consumer Reports Magazine. here's the complete list:

(1) Trend Micro ('PC-cillin') Internet Security 2007 (now referred to as "Trend Micro Internet Security 2007")

(2) Check Point ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7.0

(3) McAfee Total Protection 2007

(4) McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007

(5) Microsoft Live OneCare

(6) BitDefender Internet Security 10

(7) F-Secure Internet Security 2007

(8) Symantec Norton 360

(9) Symantec Norton Internet Security 2007

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I would not have both installed at the same time. For multiple reasons:

1) 2 antivirus programs can sometimes think that the other antivirus program is a virus. If you look at the basics of what it's doing, it can appear to be (it looks at every file on the computer, changes some of them, moves some to a folder where they can't work, and scans every file that you download... when you look at it blunty, that kinda looks like a virus)

2) Say you have a year of McAffee and a year of Norton. If you install them both and let them run, you have one year of antivirus. But if you install Norton once McAffee runs out (or vice versa) then you have 2 years of antivirus.

Answer 4

Both suck.

Your best bet is to uninstall whatever antivirus is on your machine, and download a free virus scan like AVG.

Both Norton and McCaffee take up ridiculous amounts of resources, always come up with stupid warnings every time you try to do anything.

As long as you use common sense - always delete e-mails from people you don't know, never open attachments unless you know they are from a secure source, if you use file sharing programs - try to take note of the file size, obviously a 4K file isn't going to be a full install of Halo 2.

You can still get viruses, but you are less likely. You can always use a free scan, and when it identifies something, search online for an application specifically for removing what is on your machine - or for manual removal instructions.

Answer 5

I wouldn't use either one. Norton was on the computer when we bought it...it crashed...installed Mcafee, and it found 2 viruses but computer still didn't run like it was suppose to...we installed AVG and it found 12 viruses that Norton & Mcafee didn't find...have used AVG since and have had no viruses

Answer 6

personal preference really, if you have sometime left on nortonbefore its subscription expires might as well stay with it.
mcafee is also a good choice.
before you put mcafee on you will need to completely uninstall/remove norton

Answer 7

i understand of an rather stable software that prevents each virus conventional to guy, and the humorous element is, this software is easily a hidden characteristic of residing house windows. All u might desire to do is press start up shutdown and shutdown back. while your laptop is shutting down and says "saving settings", press residing house windows key + shift + Print show key + P. you would be at a debug show now, and from right here u can customize your innovations and make residing house windows understand virus signatures, including codes that are in accepted in each virus. *** make confident u press the foremost blend while it says "saving settings", and not while it says "shuting down"....if it says shuting down its too late and you have neglected your risk. only turn your comp back and attempt to capture it on the wonderful suited time.

Answer 8

Read this to understand the reasons you shouldn't use more than one anti virus on you computer: http://www.securitystronghold.com/top-10-ways.html
as a matter of fact, i'd recommend you avast anti virus and true sword (anti spyware) to protect your pc
hope, it'll help

Answer 9

Personally, I use avast instead of AVG simply based on user reviews on download.com. I have also heard wonderful things about tiny firewall as well as kerio's firewall. If anybody can add to this about how well these products work which i have mentioned please do so.

Answer 10

Don't use either. They're aren't effective, they are unstable, slow down your system.

I recommend NOD32. It's cheaper and a lot more effective and doesn't slow down your system.

The interface isn't as pretty, but is it really necessary to have a pretty virus scanner.