Where Was It When The Virus Came In?
Written: Aug 09 '00
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Product Rating:
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Pros: It was free, came preinstalled on computer
Cons: It didn't catch the virus
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| J.A.Keirns's Full Review: McAfee VirusScan |
I never had any contact whatsoever with McAfee VirusScan before I got my new Hewlett Packard computer last week. It came preinstalled with this anti-virus program. No disk or manual came with it though. HP computers have their own recovery CD's with the software on them.
I figured it would be OK. How was I to know any better. I didn't feel the need to immediately install the new Norton Anti-Virus 2000 program I had just purchased a few weeks ago. Why have 2 anti-virus programs on a computer? Shows how much I know. I'll tell you why.
To go back a ways, our old computer had gotten a bad case of the Wscript.kak Worm Virus that's been going around. That's why I purchased the Norton, to try to help me get rid of it. It had not been detected due to my lack of previously owning an anti-virus program, and eventually it did some real damage. It's a nasty virus. So that computer is in the shop.
I set this new McAfee up to scan my email as well as everything off the Internet. I thought I was being protected. Then, just the other day, I read an opinion on McAfee right here on Epinions, by a guy who had gotten that same kak virus while McAfee was suppose to be protecting him. That was enough to convince me to go ahead and install my Norton program too. I didn't know if having 2 programs would cause a conflict or not, but I was willing to take the risk. OK, so now both programs were on and scanning and protecting me.
Guess what I got yesterday? An email from a friend. And guess what happened? Norton Anti-Virus popped right up, detected a virus the very second that email message came through, and froze my computer until I told it what to do. It wouldn't/couldn't repair that infected email, so it quarantined it, and then unfroze my computer and told me it was now safe to continue using my computer. Whew! Then I just went and deleted the infected file out of quarantine, kak virus gone!
Thank goodness for epinions, and that review I read the other day or else my NEW computer would have been infected just that quick. Where was my McAfee all this time? I'm sure I don't know. It never popped up. I went in and checked it's log file of all the files it had scanned. It seemed to be doing ok checking Internet files and stuff, but 0 email checks. I have it set up to check the email, and it is enabled, but it isn't doing its job. It should be scanning all the email I get, and it says 0. Even if it's not scanning the email, it didn't even pop up like Norton did. That virus would have gotten through McAfee.
I will leave the McAfee installed on my computer. But not without Norton to back it up.
Recommended:
No
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Epinions.com ID:
J.A.Keirns
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Member: Julia A. Keirns
Location: Payne, Ohio
Reviews written: 72
Trusted by: 15 members
About Me:
Married for 15 years, mother of 3 children ages 8, 11 and 13, freelance writer.
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