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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Speaking of protection scams, anyone else struggling with McAfee's "free" antivirus scanner on Windows?

My wife bought a new HP laptop last year that came with it, and I've had to manually remove it twice now.

What a scam - the antivirus software is itself a virus-like entity. Reminds me of a mafia protection racket.

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TB's avatar

Yep. McAfee is absolutely a scam... while it DOES genuinely do antivirus work, it's completely unnecessary on Windows because Microsoft has "windows defender" build into windows, and it will run automatically when no other A/V is present unless you go into the settings and turn it off. And it's free, and a lot less of a pain than any of the commercial A/Vs (though it can occasionally cause trouble in specific circumstances).

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God Bless America's avatar

Yes, yes and yes… Whatever happened to McAfee? I haven’t heard anything about that recently.

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Emumundo's avatar

I guess he’s still dead....

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

Last I heard he suicided himself.

Allegedly.

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