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Old 23rd February 2015 | 17:54
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mixture
 
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Mixture why do you say "stay away from McAfee"?
To be honest I can't remember where I first got that idea from....

What I do know:
- They don't rank particularly highly in comparatives these days
- They've never ranked particularly highly in comparatives historically
- They demonstrated poor QA back in 2010 when they killed Windows XP by removing a critical system file they falsely identified as a virus

And if Wikipedia is to be believed....
In 2012, when asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus he replied by saying "I take it off," and that "It's too annoying."

"he" being Mr McAfee, the original founder (although he resigned only a few years after forming the company).
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