Waking up to BIG problems with McAfee

[NamesDontMatter]

If any of you are McAfee users, you may have noticed a cool new Security Center installation this morning. But one thing that makes this new launch interesting is that with the Launch of four other new products McAfee is Issuing a major bug fix.

The bug fix closes a hole in its SecurityCenter application which had been spotted by security expert, eEye. McAfee rated the hole as 'medium' in terms of its severity.

But eEye's chief hacking officer, Marc Maiffret, took umbrage at McAfee's previous behaviour.

It had quietly fixed another problem eEye had told the company about without even bothering to tell its customers.

"Fixing an extremely critical vulnerability without the proper notification is a disservice to customers," Maiffret complained.

More information on this story can be found here (http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/index.html)

In my opinion the new security center certainly looks better, but now McAfee users have to relearn how to navigate it. Many users are not at ease with this situation where McAfee tries to slip a Major Bug fix under the radar, It is simply not pleasant for the customers.

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Source: TheINQ (http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=33424)

[Corrosion]

mcafee sux either way so it doesnt really matter if they have a problem or not, because the whole program is a problem. AVG is good use that, and ad aware, thats all i use

[pt]

i used them both too, i had mcafee for a while a few months ago, it eated a lot of memory

[bruins004]

I used McAfee a while back and I gotta say the program was def. messed up. It came with a DELL I used to have and when I used to run it I always got an alert that there was a virus. The funny thing was that it said the virus was the McAfee program (lol). It was pretty much doing this to itself :nutkick: .

Anyways I now use Nortons, Adaware and Yahoo Anti-Spy. They all work great together. That is on top of my two firewalls as well. Another piece of software which is also good to use (I use it sometimes) is Peer Guardian. It closes ports to certain IPs so they cannot get into your computer.

[xylomn]

I had mcafee ages ago and I'm never going to use that program again. It didnt stop crap getting onto my computer and when something did and it found it in a scan I would get, sorry cannot clean this item, sorry cannot delete this item, sorry cannot quarentine this item, would you like to exculde this item from future searches :roll: all it could ever do is pretend the virus wasn't there lol

Personally I use Bitdefender 9 with ZoneAlarm Pro, Spyware Blaster, and Spybot S&D. Havent had anything major get into my system since I started using this.

[Canuto]

Im running sygate personal firewall and a 6 month trial F-secure that's all i need.