I use McAfee Site Adviser to advise me how safe are sites that I visit. I was surprised today to see it showing a big red X against your site, and the advisory:
In our tests, we found downloads on this site that some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs.
Your comments would be appreciated. McAfee is a reputable security company.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2415
been discussed before... all relevant information is there for you.
Hi Buddyboy, please read following posts / threads:
# - http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2996#post-23914
# - http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2415#post-15329
# - http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25137
I read the topic subject line - "McAfee Site Adviser Says GOD Unsafe" and I should remind you to please keep religion and politics out of the forums. ;)
I do, however, have it on Good Authority that GOD has WOT (Web of Trust) installed and finds the information much more timely and accurate than if he relied on Site Advisor. The rumour that GOD is unsafe is nothing more than evil and dated gossip spread by McAfee minions that take an eternity to update and remain accurate often only for the briefest of moments - demonstrating and highlighting the failings in the inferior (and less safe) McAfee program.
McAfee or WOT - ask yourself, What would GOD do?
Bubby you are Awesome!
LOL
Does GOD need security?
Suki
http://community.mcafee.com/showthread.php?t=220521
Well I use to think Mcafee was good, but don't know anymore. I don't know I think there is something wrong with saying something like this
"Why were you redirected to this page? When we visited this site, we found it may be designed to trick you into submitting your financial or personal information to online scammers. This is a serious security threat which could lead to identity theft, financial losses or other dissemination of personal information"
You get that when you try to download the eicar.com and probably any of the eicar files from eicar.org (no you don't only with the eicar.com file, not using Mcafee right now but maybe that is because Mcafee won't detect the txt. files and probably not the .zip files to you go to extract the file somewhere. Is it to get people scared they are not safe online so they buy Site Advisor or Mcafee? I understand it may be something in siteadvisor, maybe it thought something was suspicious or something, but why would it say something like that for the eicar test file?
Nothing fact based. I removed all of M's software last year (which wasn't soon enough)!
As far as GOD goes,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, BuBBy has stated the best. ROTFLMAO
Michelle
Go with what you are comfortable with! You are the one who makes the choice, everyone else's is just an opinion on what they prefer!
I personally liked McAfee's 2005 Edition the best.
The 2008 Security Center is trying to run my network(NOT), but I do!
Suki
It said some screen saver's & games not good but I been ok all the games & screen saver's I got been good,still if you know the name you know it you be ok, I not be hear if I think it bad may be McAfee nag to go Pro.
McAfee says GOD unsafe.
What about the DEVIL.....is he OK?
Thanks all. Excellent points and an informative discussion. Isn't that what good forums are all about! I have tossed out site advisor and switched to WOT. So far it looks good, and it gives a big thumbs up to GOTD too. :)
Have to let you in a little story from quite a few years ago with mcaffee and for that matter nortons, avg and pc-cillin. I first installed pc-cillin to see how good it was and if it would find everything. then did a system restore to go back to how my system was running b4. Yes i did have a nasty trojan on my system, but wanted to see which all antivirus programs would pick it up . So i installed norton's and no it wasn't found by that program or mcaffee's and for that matter avg . So it was at that point that pc-cillin was going to have my business. the strange thing was i done the test again with the same virus a month later and at that point avg and norton's found it but mcaffee's didn't. Which leads me to believe that norton's and pc-cillin and avg are on top of things but mcaffes is way behind on updates at least that is what i found in my search to find the most effective antivirus program:)
I think it depends what trojan you get. I had problems where Norton didn't detect trojans but Mcafee did, I was a fan of Norton's a few years ago too. I loved their Norton Utilities program then, but now there are so many program utilities available. Even some for free and the ones that aren't, you could possibly get in a giveaway from the company eventually. I use system mechanic 6. Plus now you have to buy Systemworks and you can't just buy the Utilities. I really don't like their antivirus anymore either.
http://dealspl.us/Download-Avira-AntiVir-Personal-Edition-Premium-for-FREE_87382 <-- using that for now. I was using the free version but then I saw that today and just switched over to the premium for now. It's about a 6 month licence.
will stick with my pc-cillin it has done me right for years now even though i pay i know i am protected:)
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