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McAfee LiveSafe Review
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<blockquote data-quote="Fritz" data-source="post: 575149" data-attributes="member: 42836"><p>McAfee has never been my cup of tea really and I'm quite surprised it fared so well regarding the malicious URLs. Unfortunately, only a few of the remnants were opened, so we can only guess what might have happened.</p><p></p><p>I don't agree with the opinion to take the decision away from the user though. Countless times AV solutions and firewalls have given me nothing but trouble by blocking stuff – mostly silently to make it even worse – in order to have me jump through countless hoops just to be able to run a legitimate, yet rarely found program.</p><p></p><p>The user is given all the info he needs in order to make an informed decision and clicking on "Accept" out of a lack of attention should have the result it implicates. Breeding more mindless drones by protecting everybody from themselves just isn't a great development in general. <em>Think before you act</em>, that's all it takes. Have Darwin take care of the rest.</p><p></p><p>That attempted download of HMP shows perfectly fine how annyoing it'd be if there wasn't a workaround to let it go through in spite of the warning.</p><p></p><p>The only thing I agree on is the placement of the buttons in the fullscreen browser warning. "Accept" comes even before "Block" and that's a bit misleading. I'd place it elsewhere and probably color it red, with the block option colored green. Of course, it clearly says what it does, so I have to consider it a minor imperfection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fritz, post: 575149, member: 42836"] McAfee has never been my cup of tea really and I'm quite surprised it fared so well regarding the malicious URLs. Unfortunately, only a few of the remnants were opened, so we can only guess what might have happened. I don't agree with the opinion to take the decision away from the user though. Countless times AV solutions and firewalls have given me nothing but trouble by blocking stuff – mostly silently to make it even worse – in order to have me jump through countless hoops just to be able to run a legitimate, yet rarely found program. The user is given all the info he needs in order to make an informed decision and clicking on "Accept" out of a lack of attention should have the result it implicates. Breeding more mindless drones by protecting everybody from themselves just isn't a great development in general. [I]Think before you act[/I], that's all it takes. Have Darwin take care of the rest. That attempted download of HMP shows perfectly fine how annyoing it'd be if there wasn't a workaround to let it go through in spite of the warning. The only thing I agree on is the placement of the buttons in the fullscreen browser warning. "Accept" comes even before "Block" and that's a bit misleading. I'd place it elsewhere and probably color it red, with the block option colored green. Of course, it clearly says what it does, so I have to consider it a minor imperfection. [/QUOTE]
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