Comments on: McAfee targets p2pnet. Again.

By: Kart00n

Kart00n — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:00:33 +0000

Hmm,obviously theres somthing fishy about SiteAdvisor and god knows=P

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:12:02 +0000

Jon

This may be a case of SLANDER OF TITLE.
Check here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander_of_title

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:12:42 +0000

in all my testing McAfee Fails to actually protect its users computers.
Switch to Kaspersky or NOD32 if you really want to be protected.
McAfee is really just a ripoff just like its other crappy competitor Norton

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:22:36 +0000

I personally dont trust any program telling me what sites are good and what sites are bad. Frankly I dont want them having any knowledge of the sites I go to.

Do they keep track of those sites a person visits or is there just some list of these sites in the antivirus program that always checks every webpage you go to.

I think a better way to protect people from visiting unwanted sites is a spell checker in their browser. I dont know how many times Ive gone to bsetbuy.com instead of bestbuy.com etc.

Seems like every single site that is a misspelling of a popular sites looks the same way.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:35:55 +0000

^^ Interesting.

If thereâs an adventurous lawyer out there whoâd like to take McAfee on for p2pnet (and unlike 7Search, p2pnet doesnât have âpast ties to a notorious piece of spyware,â) Iâd really like to hear from her/him on the understanding all fees would have to come from any award/settlement. Iâm at p2pnet @ shaw dot ca.

Cheers!
Jon

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:20:02 +0000

McAfee’s Siteadvisor is also being sued by 7Search, a site once
considered to be a big distributor of forced Active-X drive-by
downloads, over being tagged as spyware:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/7search_sues_mcafee/

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:33:08 +0000

@ few bux & – Reasonable Person

few bux >> “why not bring this subject up with a lawyer and sue McAffee for defamation and so forth”

You know how it works: lawyers cost lots of money and I don’t have any. But see below

Reasonable Person >> I’m not worried about readers, but it really riles me to have this kind of thing happen and not be able to do anything about it, beyond posting an article. But who knows? Maybe that’s enough. After all, don’t I keep on saying the Net is what makes the difference and corporations can no longer do and say what they want with impunity?

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:27:45 +0000

Kaspersky is the best – the only vendor with 24/7 hourly signature updates. They get the best results in tests, too.

By: Reasonable Person

Reasonable Person — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:19:36 +0000

Norton and McAffe are bloated crapware. Have been for a long time now. AVG is on the fast track to joining them. It has also become the worst AV program for giving false positives thanks to poorly written heuristic routines.

I wouldn’t worry too much about a few lost readers. Anyone who is too lazy to think for themselves, preferring instead to rely on what others tell them they should and shouldn’t be reading, probably aren’t the type you want posting comments and deserve the wake up call they’ve got coming to them.

By: Klimax

Klimax — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:42:14 +0000

My small addition.
Some weeks ago AVG found virus,not big deal,but where it came from?The computer was locked down and not many sites were visited from it.Anyway I did search on google for Åame of file and not many sites showed.One of them was McAfee adviser,which stated that it is legit and part of screensaver.Right…But why it was trying to come back ten times a day???SO this is not supprising at all.

AVoid McAffe,go AVG… (I am only user of AVG and network/system admin and old computers collector…)

By: chronoss

chronoss — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:20:57 +0000

and dont forget that SONY had all the major AV software companies in its pocket for that rootkit, AND you all think that situation went away.

HAHA

By: chronoss

chronoss — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:19:53 +0000

dont feel bad uha1.com has been on that kinda hit list for years funny part is never could figure out why.

By: few bux

few bux — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:12:20 +0000

Jon, since you will be in court tomorrow, why not bring this subject up with a lawyer and sue McAffee for defamation and so forth since they are in fact preventing people from visiting your site.

Heck you can use a million or two. Fight back.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:26:00 +0000

So I was looking into this, and I can tell you what’s going on with AntiSpyware.com being suspicious. AntiSpyware.com has an affiliate program for which they allow people to sell some of their products at huge markups. They use a service called ClickBank, which is notoriously used by malware writers throughout the world. Essentially, a spyware company will set up an antispyware or antivirus product which is full of fake detections and allows for free installs for scan only, and then sells the removal product. However, the scans are all faked. I’m not saying this is what AntiSpyware.com does. However, they sell their product right along side these vendors on ClickBank. Many botnet controllers will sign up at ClickBank, and then in turn force installs of the free scan only antivirus into all of their infected computers with their affiliate ID (getting a few cents for each install), and then if anyone buys the repair product, they get an even bigger cut. So, essentially AntiSpyware.com is joining this sort of filth by selling their free product along side these other malicious products. McAfee has called them suspicious by association, and hasn’t yet determined whether antispyware.com is legit or not. Honestly, I’m not sure myself yet.