You said this is the WORST AntiVirus, how bad is it?

People love to hate on McaFee, but how bad is it really?

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Cracks are sometimes shown to highlight the dangers of software piracy, my content is not intended to teach anybody how to pirate, or maliciously hack.

(C) Eric Parker 2024

[redstoneactive]

It acts as a virus. Desperately trying to stay installed, despite attempting to delete it. Its such a pain.

[Dreamlication]

"The McAfee ad said I have 9 viruses"
Scareware is malware! It's basically malware after your subscription ends.

[asafkaopikoaosj]

Very unrelated but I find very funny how the most reliable way to get hacked is looking for what a kid would look for on youtube

[elbiggus]

My biggest issue with McAfee is that it's pre installed on pretty much every PC, and it can be hard to get rid of.

[multis]

imagine a malware that installs mcaffee and then removes it just to disable defender

[TheTRNalt]

Ah yes everyones favourite browser hijacker to make your search engine yahoo

[Breeze]

"It's not that bad"
Literally killed Windows Defender.

[JackDD]

Looks like the McAfee popups have improved. 10 years ago, it would kick you out of whatever you were doing and launch your web browser to tell you to buy their shit. _Every 15 minutes._ I hate that they're still in business.

[kodak]

If any software I install alters my search engine, bombards me with pop-ups, or modifies my system settings without my knowledge or explicit consent, then it meets the definition of malware. Programs that take such actions are invasive, disrupt the intended functionality of my system, and compromise my control over my device. Regardless of their intended purpose, if they manipulate my settings or push unwanted notifications without permission, they qualify as malicious software. Responsible software respects user autonomy, while anything that circumvents this respect to tamper with settings or inject itself into my browsing experience is essentially malware.

[cherryrosy]

Once you think that McAffee is uninstalled, a month later you will get a popup/notif telling you to reinstall McAffee...

[Toothu]

I first thought it was an actual virus disguising as an antivirus bc of how hard it is to get rid of 😭😭😭

[whizzy_]

My biggest gripe with commercial AVs is all the additional stuff they're pushing along with it. I don't want a VPN, a "safe browser", popup adverts, a password manager or any of that. Just give me an antivirus engine that is less targeted than windefend while maintaining similar levels of performance and maybe slightly better behaviour-based detection rate and we're good.

[Seme_]

Many clients with laptops and McAfee pre-installed, laptops with HDDs, slowest I've ever seen, with McAfee (old version) pop-up one after another and after uninstalling laptops always ran 200% better and faster like a SSD kinda, incredible.

[happatscha]

Protegent is the true worst Antivirus. You will die If you use it.

Mcafee is also bad. Overpriced, heavy on system, and in terms of malware protection performs worse than Windows defender from what I've seen in many reviews. But hey, its not the worst.

[coolj]

So many pop-ups you might think that you DID instal a virus

[friends]

I've never seen someone move their cursor so fluidly. It looked like some sort of synchronized dance. It was beautiful. I shed one singular, shiny tear.

[fr-ong-fr]

My school's McAfee subscription didn't get renewed. This kicked the antivirus system into overdrive, making any and every act on the computers with McAfee nullified to the point where Google searches are blocked with Warnings and a big red "return to safety" button.
Like 20% of the computers are fucked 😄👍

[JJFX-]

My issue with McAfee is the ads, browser hijacking, etc. makes me very skeptical that it's primary business model isn't more about data collection and analytics than anything else. They might not 'log' personalized VPN data but that doesn't mean it's not gathering usage data or giving state actors access to personalized data (hypothetically). Not to mention I've heard they are notorious for processing DMCA requests.

Seriously how many red flags does one need to see?

[Sypaka]

I don't like how uninstalling McAfee seem to destroy Defender. This is a no-go.
Eric, maybe you could make a follow-up, where you try to get Defender running again?

[panicpixel]

seeing ads in your web browser was wild to me. im so used to having an effective ad blocker