EPTIntel Buys McAfee - Page 2
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dcberkeley
Canada844 Posts
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Blixy213
United States360 Posts
On August 20 2010 21:42 CharlieMurphy wrote: it doesnt matter if it sucks, it has name recognition. Average computer user doesnt know. And that's who they sell 90% of their product to. Let's say you're 70 years old, computers might as well be Brain Surgery, you only use it to Email and use google to search up recipes. Easy marketing is normally along the lines of: "People will go on your computer, steal your Social Security number, and your credit card number and then you will get viruses which will ruin your computer!" Which isn't true, if you're careful, but being very uneducated on computers, they feel the money spent is well worth it, even though you can pick up way better protection for free (Spybot and Malware bytes both come to mind) I think I've also heard rumors of McAfee creating their own Viruses so they can advertise additional safety to users who might not be protected. The same thing applys to a few other 'Anti-Virus' programs, I'm hoping Intel, who is known for quality, can take this HUGE name in virus protection and turn it into something worth paying for. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11563 Posts
Can't see how McAfee helps that though. | ||
Empyrean
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infinitestory
United States4053 Posts
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Irrelevant
United States2364 Posts
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JunZ
United States314 Posts
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United States10328 Posts
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mucker
United States1120 Posts
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viraltouch
United States299 Posts
It may not be the preferred protection tools by people who knows of other substitutes, but they probably get tons of market share directly thru manufacturer deals. stock jumped 50%+ damn it | ||
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Whyzguy
Canada263 Posts
Please don't jack prices higher to cover the cost of this seemingly silly transaction. There are many other anti-virus companies out there that are better. McAfee simply alerts people they have a virus without having the ability to get rid of it. Unless you're trying to get those silly mainstreamer's, please improve the product or leave it out of your better products. Thank you, -Whyzguy | ||
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Hypnosis
United States2061 Posts
avast baby! | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
I was 2 months away from buying a new computer when it expired and it was so annoying I didn't last 2 months before I had to uninstall it. There was no way of getting rid of the constant renewal pop-ups without uninstalling. | ||
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Gnosis
Scotland912 Posts
On August 20 2010 23:31 Blixy wrote: And that's who they sell 90% of their product to. Let's say you're 70 years old, computers might as well be Brain Surgery, you only use it to Email and use google to search up recipes. Easy marketing is normally along the lines of: "People will go on your computer, steal your Social Security number, and your credit card number and then you will get viruses which will ruin your computer!" Which isn't true, if you're careful, but being very uneducated on computers, they feel the money spent is well worth it, even though you can pick up way better protection for free (Spybot and Malware bytes both come to mind) I think I've also heard rumors of McAfee creating their own Viruses so they can advertise additional safety to users who might not be protected. The same thing applys to a few other 'Anti-Virus' programs, I'm hoping Intel, who is known for quality, can take this HUGE name in virus protection and turn it into something worth paying for. As they say, "how do two programmers make money?" One writes viruses, the other, anti-viruses. | ||
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coltrane
Chile988 Posts
I use linux on amd, so this is sooo far away... | ||
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Meapak_Ziphh
United States6786 Posts
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Last Romantic
United States20661 Posts
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gorgoino18
Korea (South)109 Posts
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sputnik.theory
Poland449 Posts
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sputnik.theory
Poland449 Posts
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