* Posts by MarkDean

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Mcafee gets fierce about resellers (but in a good way)

MarkDean

Re: Not a good advert really.

1) Sounds like you are referring to consumer products rather than Enterprise products which would make this comment irrelevant in this enterprise channel focused thread (which was business, not technology focused by the way).

2) If 60% of systems run McAfee, then your statistic is in no way indicative of the quality of the product.

3) 90% of today's malware comes from the web so if they are just running memory-based AV that won't stop the issue. Tell your customer's to run a browser or network based web-security solution (i.e. McAfee Site Advisor which is free or a Web Gateway).

4) MSSE does not provide a smaller footprint in memory than McAfee, let alone any other AV solution (Symantec, Kaspersky, Sophos, etc). In fact MS is probably the last company that should be protecting the vulnerabilities that it for the most part creates... seems like a case of the wolf guarding the hen house.