News - EU concerns could delay Intel’s McAfee acquisition

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Anti-trust regulators in Brussels may investigate the chip-giant’s recent shopping spree.

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Hands up, who uses Mcaffee?
Hands up, who wants the CPU in their PC to be doing stuff you havent asked it to?

[AGTDenton]

If they go ahead with embedded CPU virus protection will they bother with the Mac varients?

McAfee used to be OK until they followed Symantec into the bloatware market, I just stick to free virus/spyware scanners.

[crossy]

Hands up, who uses Mcaffee?

I use McAfee - to be honest it's never bothered me that much, apart from once when it decided that it couldn't update itself (easily sorted by following something on the McAfee KB)

Hands up, who wants the CPU in their PC to be doing stuff you havent asked it to?

Erm, you do actually run an operating system on your PC don't you? In which case you can pretty much guarantee that it'll be doing stuff you haven't asked it to do fairly regularly. Even more so if you're running Windows. And especially if you've got something from Apple or Adobe installed.

I deal with McAfee at work too, and it's okay in my experience - certainly lightyears ahead of the abortion that Norton AV turned into. Had some bad experiences with AVG on Windows which put me off of the free stuff - although MS Security Essentials looks quite good. That said, AVG do a reasonably good scanner for Android phones (bought in from somewhere else).

One criticism I will level firmly at McAfee is that they're following Symantec (always a bad idea) and trying to do everything - e.g. online backup, whereas I'm sure most folks would just like a decent firewall and AV combo. Oh, and I'd really like to see some more informative feedback on the scans and firewall activity - too "black box" at the moment.