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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: The Nstuff on January 26, 2010, 10:11:09 PM
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Comcast has switched giving away free versions of McAfee virus scan to giving away free versions of Norton Internet Security 2010 (just about $80/year).
If you are a comcast user, head over to their website: http://security.comcast.net/ (http://security.comcast.net/) and download it.
And before everyone starts yelling about how awful Norton is, do realize that starting with their 2009 version, they completely rewrote the codebase (some say it's actually a reworked product that they bought from some other company) and it's not even remotely the same product as before. It installs in less than a minute, you can put it into a game mode where it doesn't run any scans or do anything that would hurt performance. It's highly configurable and just sits in the background doing what its supposed to.
Personally, it has been a tad sensitive about random things I've downloaded. It thought a blizzard download tool was acting suspicious, so it does have a tendency to scream when a file is legit, but thus far, that is my only issue.
For joe shmoe, if they are a comcast customer, i'll recommend this. Otherwise, I'll get them to run Microsoft Security Essentials which is free and highly rated.
Just gotta wonder what McAfee did to screw up bad enough for Comcast to switch (other than having a really sucky product). Comcast has almost 16 million customers... that's no small population to have switch to your competitor.
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RAWsome, thanks for the heads up!
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Is this a one year subscription or is it free for 'life'?
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It's free for life. You don't have to pay anything extra for it. Though, so was the McAfee free for life, which now runs out May 12 because of this change.
I haven't heard anything about the reasoning for it, but I would bet that it's more that Symantec made a better offer. We're still using McAfee Enterprise internally, so I don't think it's a "we're pissed at you, so we're switching" situation.
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Microsoft Security Essentials works great for me and is 100%
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Microsoft Security Essentials works great for me and is 100%
...free
Security Essentials would also be my recommendation.
H
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Ditto. Switched from Avast to MSE, and it's been great.
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MSE + MByte's keeps me disease free.