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McAfee Is Now Intel Security

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Honestly, it was only a matter of time before this happened.

Intel is distancing itself from the name of its top security product, McAfee, after years of having its name dragged through the mud thanks to the misadventures of its founder, John McAfee. Intel, which bought McAfee in 2010, will rebrand its subsidiary as Intel Security. But Intel will keep the logo we all know well -- that red shield that lives on many of our computers' toolbars.
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Does it still run like shit, or does the name not change that?
 
About the only thing i did with their products was uninstall them on new machines preloaded with it.
 
Hopefully they fire my former boss at the Plano, Texas office with this rebrand.:D McAfee is by far the worst company I've had the misfortune of working for.
 
Nothing but trouble with McAfee. Used to oversee it for 250ish endpoints 10 years ago and it was junk then. Seen too many machines with McAfee installed with viruses dug in deep.
 
Bladestorm said:
Hopefully they fire my former boss at the Plano, Texas office with this rebrand.:D McAfee is by far the worst company I've had the misfortune of working for.
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A friend of mine worked there in the 1990's. He didn't care for it either.
 
The key here is that Intel is now at the helm and I have a feeling they are far less inept than McAfee?
 
Really? I mean really? They blame the founder? If anything he was funny. How about they blame the shitty software itself? Didnt it stop fortune 500 networks from operating for some time? Yea, lets blame the founder...
 
"But Intel will keep the logo we all know well -- that red shield that lives on many of our computers' toolbars."


bwahahahahahahahahahahaha my sides are near Jupiter at this point. Very rarely computers I run into have Mc Affee
 
Bladestorm said:
Hopefully they fire my former boss at the Plano, Texas office with this rebrand.:D McAfee is by far the worst company I've had the misfortune of working for.
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Who R U?
I worked in LTAM till 2011. The management there is completely oblivious. Nobody works half the time, and when you need something done, they have no idea what to do. That location is run by idiots.
 
It's still gonna be crap, FYI. They mentioned that McAfee will still be a fairly autonomous part inside Intel.

Intel or not, Still gonna uninstall it. My grandfather had a system with McAfee. He had around 50 viruses even with it installed. Mostly rootkits. Terrible protection!

If someone named their antivirus Condom-AV... LOL
 
any word on how the quest for super pervo powder is going?
 
McAfee is such a bloated pile of crap. It shames the malware industry by its existence.
 
I doubt a simple name change is going to magically make their products better.
 
LeviathanZERO said:
Who R U?
I worked in LTAM till 2011. The management there is completely oblivious. Nobody works half the time, and when you need something done, they have no idea what to do. That location is run by idiots.
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I worked for an internet security company that got bought by McAfee in late 2008, and stayed on till I was let go in early 2012. I never worked at the Plano location, but my boss did.
 
Bladestorm said:
I worked for an internet security company that got bought by McAfee in late 2008, and stayed on till I was let go in early 2012. I never worked at the Plano location, but my boss did.
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Web Gateway and Email? I think I know who you're talking about.
 
"I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet," - John McAfee
 
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That's correct. ;)
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Well then! Yeah, I think that asshole is still there.
Lots of really smart guys that are under paid and abused over there. I feel for a lot of them, had to do my time and get the hell out. The buyout was an interesting time, wait, so I left in 2012, because I was there for that. High five! ;)
 
Spazturtle said:
"I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet," - John McAfee
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The man may be utterly insane in all other manners, but he nailed it.
 
I like McAfee, he seems like a smart and funny guy.

Last time I tried the software was back in the 90s. Stupid antivirus programs. People are paying for the privilege of having their storage scanned, organized and some of it sent to NSA servers.

What's truly amazing is that at this point our PCs are doing much better job at running VMs than "antivirus" software. They're safer, too.
 
At the 2-man PC shop I worked at in the early 2000s, as part of our "PC tuneup" service, we included a free removal of McAfee or Norton AV and replacement with something lighter-weight like Avast (assuming the customer wanted it done, of course).

Getting rid of McAfee or Norton AV was one of the biggest speed boost tweaks we could make to an XP machine, especially if it only had 256mb ram (what most XP computers made in '01 and '02 shipped with).
 
Another stupid Intel purchase (what's new there), what are they thinking? McAfee is among the least respected of the names in computer security.
 
LeviathanZERO said:
Who R U?
I worked in LTAM till 2011. The management there is completely oblivious. Nobody works half the time, and when you need something done, they have no idea what to do. That location is run by idiots.
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I was in Enterprise QA until 2006 in Beaverton. Consistently mismanaged and looking to waste $100 to save pennies, they never seemed to me to have any real clue as to what direction the industry was going, and were consequently always playing catch-up to the competition, even when the McAfee tech was superior.
 
I read about this on cnn.com this morning and LOL'd that they mentioned the crazy video that the McAfee founder made.

I used to run McAfee on my previous computer (Windows XP) and it would bring it to a crawl whenever it ran a scan.

Unfortunately, my work laptop uses it, but fortunately, it isn't as sluggish now. That said, I have no plans to install McAfee or "Intel security" on my computer again.
 
Thanks for the heads up on the name change. It's nice to know what to keep avoiding.
 
A business with a well known name in the computer world renaming the well-known worst anti-virus software ever?

It's like renaming the old Russian car Lada to a new BMW.
 
Avast Free Antivirus outclasses their total security suite last time I checked...
 
Only virus I ever picked up [nasty one that started auto-deleting files on one of my drives] I was using Norton's.
I lost about 1/3 the drive before I could stop it and fix it.
I will say the only program that could "find" and quarantine it was Sophos.

Moved to Avast after that on all my computers and not a single problem since and hopefully never.
 
Would it be ok if they fix, not rebrand that PoS HBSS product too, thanks!!
 
Never cared for McAfee, and still don't care about it. Couldn't care less when Intel bought it and still don't today.
 
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