{"id":1065,"date":"2012-01-22T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T05:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2012-07-14T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T02:39:44","slug":"security-software-mcafee-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Security Software: McAfee Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve long been a user of Trend Micro’s Internet Security largely because it worked without eating up an unreasonable amount of system resources, wasn’t too intrusive, and because it was cheap (just $20 a copy as a UWO student, and each license could cover 3 computers). But beyond inertia, I didn’t have any particular devotion to it.<\/p>\n

My new laptop came with a subscription to McAfee, and I figured that would be fine: all the big anti-virus programs are pretty competitive in terms of protection offered, since it’s not an area they can afford to fall on their face over. However, the other aspects have just been terrible<\/b>. A lot of restart-nagging for updates, but worse is the subscription nagging: I once every week or two it pops up asking me to renew now, even though I still have over 6 months left on my subscription! And the pop-ups don’t have little X’s in the corner to quickly dismiss them. You have to click on a drop-down menu and select close to get rid of it. I just got two <\/em>renewal ads tonight, so I’m thinking of blowing it away and starting over with something else (likely Trend Micro), it’s simply inexcusable to start nagging me about renewal that far in advance. <\/p>\n

But there are other issues too:<\/p>\n