My friend's family computer got a Trojan and was forced to wipe the entire drive. When they rebooted and everything it turned out that there was still a Trojan on the computer. He is still using the same antivirus system, McAfee. Personally, though, i use the free 2011 edition AVG and it works great.
Since the computer was mostly my friend's dad he didn't want me or himself to try and download AVG as it might interfere with McAfee.
Should I tell him to ditch McAfee for AVG free or what?
I agree with Peggster. Kaspersky was the only paid anti-virus that caught the keylogger that was in my computer. Where as Mcafee and Norton failed miserably to catch. It was sad that I had to switch to Kaspersky though because I like the way Norton anti-virus looks.
All of them have flaws and it doesn't do the job 100 percent. So none of them are good. I had Norton once and it sucked. I had Macafee and it sucked. It didn't find anything. I used a different anti-virus software and it found 12 trojan virus's the Macafee didn't find. So none are good. A lot of them flawless and a lot of them suck.
Wow, I saw that thread and missed the malwarebytes part.
As for the problem its possible the files got messed up some other way and now appear to be viruses. The only thing I can say at this point is that its not likely to be mcafees fault.
All of them have flaws and it doesn't do the job 100 percent. So none of them are good. I had Norton once and it sucked. I had Macafee and it sucked. It didn't find anything. I used a different anti-virus software and it found 12 trojan virus's the Macafee didn't find. So none are good. A lot of them flawless and a lot of them suck.
You have a great point. That's why its best to just have a combination of anti-spyware/anti-virus stuff so there's less chance a scan may have missed something.
All of them have flaws and it doesn't do the job 100 percent. So none of them are good.
Everything has a flaw, so I guess that means that everything is bad. By your logic. Just because it doesn't do 100% job doesn't mean it's bad. It's still good. If you're on a PC, then go right ahead and roam the Internet without an anti-virus, see how far you get.
You can get quite far if you know what you are doing.
True. I was telling my friend the only way something so bad got on the computer was if somebody was targeting him or he hit download on a malicious file or something.
