JonMCC33 said:
Want a real memory hog? McAfee is the worst
Hi Jon
I agree, McAfee has never been one of my picks really. I guess I may still be jaded by their REALLY poor choice of business tactics the previous ownership was practicing back in the late 90's...they really got a bad reputation for that and most of us old timer security folk just can't forget how bad they were. I guess I should go by their more recent records with somewhat new ownership and better business ethics.
Yep....Corporate board may be better but the app....Still bad!
McAfee failed the most recent VB100% test for use with Vista and a friend of mine who had it was always complaining about it's resouces useage. Plus it only scored a 6% on the Matousec Leak Test for Firewalls... so I'm with you on this one.
ZaBaKa said:
Eset Smart Security should be compatible with 64-bit and it isn't a complete memory hog.
Yes, it is fully 64bit compatible and has a very compact footprint. Still is my #1 choice for AV but I cannot recommend the full suite with Firewall as their new Firewall (which I beta tested for 8 months) is not yet up to snuff. It scored only a 5% on Matousec's latest Firewall Leak test and was among the "Not Recommended". It's difficult to get things right with a brand new product and the Eset engineers know this all too well. I talked with several of them during the testing period and they knew they had allot of work still to do even after they released the suite to the Public. They were already at work on V2 even before V1 went public, and I'm hoping to see several improvements in the GUI, advanced rules and better Leak test results for the next iteration of this firewall. If they can even come close to the quality of their AV engine and heuristics model with the firewall someday, it will surely be one to be considered but for now I would recommend either Comodo Pro (free & ranked #1) or Online Armor (also free and ranked #4)
Oh, BTW...Symantec is a terrible resource monster still!!
My Mother got her very first computer, an HP m7760n Media Center PC and it came with NIS 2008 on it, so I tested it for my own records.
Still bloated big time, passes the VB100% with Vista so it works, but I wasn't impressed with their firewall either. It scored a paltry 32% on Matousec and was ranked "Very Poor". Uninstalling this program is STILL a frustrating experience!!!! It leaves (literally) TONS of stuff behind, so much so that Symantec was Forced to write a Cleanup tool to remove the dreggs it leaves behind...that's right....FORCED! So many users complained about it's uninstall routines that Symantec had to supply a seperate tool for this.
Now, this begs the question...why don't they simply rewrite their regular uninstaller to remove everything the first time...?
Good question, probably because the things left over are things they want to see remain whenever possible would be my guess. And since less than 15% of users who uninstall NIS know about the extra Removal tool, Symantec still has their fingers in 85% of users machines for some reason.
