Norton keeps notifying me of svchost.exe application is blocked. It's getting annoying. I went to Symantec to take a look and it appears that everyone is having this problem.

Should I switch to the quieter McAfee?

Why or why not?

11/12/2012 5:58:54 AM

You should switch to the free Microsoft Security Essentials

11/12/2012 8:20:41 AM

^

11/12/2012 8:22:11 AM

^^

11/12/2012 8:56:30 AM

^^^

11/12/2012 9:26:07 AM

^^^^

11/12/2012 9:28:23 AM

^^^^^

11/12/2012 10:49:19 AM

Consider supplementing it with the ClamAV-based Immunet, now that so much malware is specifically written to evade MSE: http://www.immunet.com/free/index.html

It's still about as unintrusive as MSE alone and much less so than a typical AV suite.

11/12/2012 11:01:27 AM

you're annoyed that your A/V is working and doing what it's supposed to do, so... you're gonna switch to something else...

11/12/2012 3:13:39 PM

I would argue that it's not working if the popups are not clear enough to illustrate to the user why something is being blocked.

11/12/2012 4:50:58 PM

I hear McAfee shoots viruses DEAD until they Faull over

11/12/2012 5:00:53 PM

^^^ It's not working if it's blocking something it shouldn't be.

11/12/2012 5:54:44 PM

^^^^^^^^^^^

11/12/2012 6:13:26 PM

^^Indeed, and the main reason I still recommend MSE, despite its dwindling effectiveness as malware is increasingly designed to circumvent it, is its near-total lack of false positives.

11/12/2012 8:10:38 PM

mcafee shoots viruses in the back of the head

and neighbors

11/13/2012 10:08:08 AM

Well if MSE is slowly being defeated by circumvention through malware, is there another route?

False positives are seriously beeping every four minutes. Usually, that wouldn't be a problem... just mute the volume, but sucks if you want to look at video or listen to music.

11/13/2012 10:54:14 AM

^^ haha

11/13/2012 11:03:24 AM

The founder of Mcafee says fuck all of it and do hookers and blow. (see google for more info)

11/13/2012 11:37:46 AM

^^^Have you considered avast! or Avira?

Anyway, the key word is "slowly" and I had already suggested a supplement to MSE called Immunet.

11/13/2012 5:19:19 PM

I like AVG. It's quiet and always seems to jump in when needed.

This is nearly a year old, but still has some nice info: http://lifehacker.com/5865356/the-best-antivirus-app-for-windows

[Edited on November 13, 2012 at 7:08 PM. Reason : moar]

11/13/2012 7:07:16 PM

I remembered AVG as being rather intrusive.

11/13/2012 8:06:35 PM

It's a resource hog.

11/14/2012 7:31:32 AM

I jumped in this thread expecting every post after OP to be about ex-CEO and his interesting life-style choices after banking 100 million and moved out of the US.

11/14/2012 7:57:01 AM

Just read some of his blog

http://www.whoismcafee.com/

11/20/2012 8:38:54 PM

the fuck? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262413/John-McAfee-Meet-SEVEN-women-lived-eccentric-software-tycoon-fled-Belize.html

1/15/2013 8:59:53 PM

LOL at losers who use antivirus.

1/23/2013 2:15:01 PM

I prefer ESET NOD32, much higher detection rate and same fast speed as MSE, consistently in the top 3 AV's. Got a 3-user license for $10 over the holidays. MSE's ranking has dropped quite significantly in the last round of tests. Avira is the best of the free options but I just couldn't stand the pop-up ad to buy it once a day. So MSE is at least free and annoyance free, better than nothing I guess.

[Edited on January 23, 2013 at 3:09 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2013 3:07:51 PM