Mcafee Or Avast For Mac

Comcast is my ISP (Internet Service Provider) and I posted the following article in the Comcast Security Forum concering the inefficiencies of Norton and McAfee and why no one should use their products. You see as a Comcast member they give their customers a free subscription to McAfee products.

I installed Avast because I heard Mcafee wasn't that good, but I'm not sure if Avast has a firewall like Mcafee does so I'm not sure if I want to uninstall McAfee. Will this lead to problems one day?? A Comparison of Avast vs McAfee by the Spyshakers.com Team Editors A custom antivirus comparison of Avast vs McAfee by the Spyshakers.com Team Editors. Solid state drive for mac mini. Avast for Mac 2017 - Free Trial Avast Pro Antivirus 2017 - Free Trial Avast Internet Security 2017 - Free Trial Avast Premier 2017.

After using it I wrote the following article: 'Hello Comcast community, Let me begin by saying although I am not an 'expert' in this particular industry I do have quite a bit of user experience in this area. In the offline world a big name or major name brand often equals the best quality and efficiency. However in the online world when it comes to software this is often not true. Norton and McAfee are the 800 pound guerillas in the antivirus industry but are they the best choices for virus protection? Again I'm not an expert but I have used these products and many others and have read many independent online reviews and conclude: Absolutely Not.

Besides being the target of virus attacks themselves, these products require huge and let me emphasize, H U G E amounts of system resources. Often slowing down your PC and functionality or slowing your boot up time significantly. This was the case with McAfee for me. It not only slowed my boot up time but required an undue amount of system resources, sometimes slowing video feeds and streaming media.

Also in my experience Norton failed to shield my computer from 5 trojan horses using it's Norton System Security Suite 2003. To add insult to injury I had to use another vendor to remove the infections as Norton was unable to.

Given the fact that about 500 new viruses are released each month, daily or near daily antivirus updates are necessary. However Norton Antivirus and McAfee Virusscan 9.0 only update once a week (I know McAfee 10.0 corrects this). This can leave you quite exposed to virus infections. Utilizing the New McAfee 10.0 I was recently hit with a very common virus know as 'exploit-byte verify'. Although Microsoft has released a patch blocking this exploit, McAfee 10.0 missed this virus and it was only detected in a manual scan. People I haven't intended to write a book and I don't want to bore you so I'll get right to the point although I could go on and on about the inefficiencies of Norton and McAfee.

There are several better alternatives out there and the one in particular that I use and am thrilled by is avast! Available at. No, I'm neither an employee or affiliate of this product but since the release of the new 4.6 version I have become a big fan of this product. The funny thing about avast!

Is that previous versions of this product did not impress me too much but with this new and updated version it has become a clear winner in my opinion. Oh and need I mention it is FREE for home use! Is complete protection for your computer. This is not some demo version or stripped down version of it's Professional version like AVG another well known free antivirus product. Is very light on system resources and provides much better real-time detection than both Norton and McAfee. When you go to the avast!