Unbelievable. I've noticed how hysterical McAfee haters can be, as if all other antivirus providers haven't had some history of flaws or suboptimal performance.
McAfee Web Protection Test
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It is advised to take all reviews with a grain of salt. In extreme cases some reviews use dramatization for entertainment purposes.
Member: Shadowra as I remember had a similar issue with YT & moved on - I was reading a few days ago that intelligent people are ones who change their minds & opinions when given knowledge, its not a weakness but a strength.
You should upload videos on Rumble or Odysee, Shadowra's videos were also repeatedly deleted on youtube, that is why he no longer uploads on youtube.
I used to be one of the McAfee haters, but after seeing recent positive tests and reviews, I gave it a try. I switched my family over to McAfee and haven't heard any complaints from them yet.
I will. For the punishment of this reporting user, more tests and noise will be coming soon now. And I will upload maybe on these platforms, or on 2-3 different platforms. To increase the nightmare
And we’ll actively discuss and talk about McAfee.
And more and more users will install McAfee.
I didn’t like them either, hence the license was just gathering dust until now. When they rewrote the product as well, initially it was a mess (which is to be expected when on decades of progress you literally press CTRL+ A and then Backspace).
But now as of 1.31 it seems to be shaping up as a nice product.
Anyway, my dashboard includes logics for quick parsing of URLs. I can copy/paste 30 URLs from the same source all at once and the dashboard processes in a second — I just have to flag whether it’s phishing or malware. It also supports VT integration now (which I changed to asynchronous mode) and the LLM integration seems to be working fine.
So it is very easy to repeat the test.
I am curious and I will research if either the VT API or another API can programmatically pull the domain registration date — so we can see exactly how old the website is. If it’s possible, I got experience with APIs and JSON parsing, it will be integrated in 30 min (approximately).
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I thought I would check out pricing, this is from the Canadian site, first year prices are barely ok, renewal prices are ludicrous, whose going to pay those prices?
I guess some users that don’t know they can do cheaper. Bitdefender and Norton prices are the same.
What conclusion would you like to draw from the domain registration date? Caution is required.
Here are some statistics related to phishing domains (created for phishing + compromised)
When we skip compromised websites, the statistics are as follows:
Although most phishing attacks lasts about one day, the attackers can often wait several weeks to start the attack.
Knowledge is power, the more we know about the domain, the better. As long as the knowledge doesn’t require me to pay.
Even if it’s just for the purpose for us to build some sort of statistics and clear picture.
I have access to this in the CP feeds but it requires me to do additional copy/paste. I like efficiency.
Who knows what we may find out.
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One conclusion is probably possible. If the less than a few weeks old website was reported by someone as phishing and it is offline, it is most probably malicious. If not blocked, it can be considered a false negative detection.
Yeah, we’ll see what sort of “heuristics”/ conclusions can come up based on the information and the results. Before I find some sort of Whois API and integrate and we see how the test plays out, it’s hard to say really.
Remember that Trend Micro signed malware vulnerability that I discovered years ago… who knew that I will discover it… in the process of testing it just appeared. Trend Micro fixed it.
If nothing meaningful comes up, I can just delete the logic.
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The dashboard looks like this:
To add motion to the videos and make them less boring, metaballs move around.
If I need to share the dashboard with someone, in order not to embed the API keys (to prevent misuse), they need to be pasted in settings. They are saved in the browser's small local storage.
Proxy needs to be activated the first time VT API us used, because CORS prevents local files from calling the API programmatically. The dashboard is not hosted online. I am too lazy to run a local server.
For each URL, the result needs to be selected. Open in New Tab saves me from copy/pasting, which will make the test longer and more exhausting.
In the end, the effectiveness is calculated. Gemini provides commentary, but I feel I should tweak the original prompt.
Overall, this is a refreshing way to do the test, compared to the Notepad copy/paste.
To add motion to the videos and make them less boring, metaballs move around.
If I need to share the dashboard with someone, in order not to embed the API keys (to prevent misuse), they need to be pasted in settings. They are saved in the browser's small local storage.
Proxy needs to be activated the first time VT API us used, because CORS prevents local files from calling the API programmatically. The dashboard is not hosted online. I am too lazy to run a local server.
For each URL, the result needs to be selected. Open in New Tab saves me from copy/pasting, which will make the test longer and more exhausting.
In the end, the effectiveness is calculated. Gemini provides commentary, but I feel I should tweak the original prompt.
Overall, this is a refreshing way to do the test, compared to the Notepad copy/paste.
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I know you can get cheaper but I doubt Joe Blow from Atomic City, Idaho does.
Well that's what these companies rely on to make their billions and this is what covers the R&D and marketing as well. For this solution to be effective, there are costs that need to be covered for anything, from cloud infrastructures, to teams, support and so on. If you look at the prices of other solutions, they are more or less the same.
I very rarely buy anything at the full price, if Joe Blow from Idaho, pays full price that's his choice, but it is similar for example with ESET: Ultimate on ESET UK £80 UK Pounds for 1 year 5 devices ($146 CAN) - And that's 'reduced'?? from £114 UK Pounds (CAN $208) Crazy prices - Joe is more likely to buy though, Norton Advanced: First year: £34:99 UK Pounds ($64:06 CAN) Then renews a £146:00 UK Pounds ($267 CAN) 
Even worse! All the same looking quickly.
Even worse! All the same looking quickly.
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I will have to test them side by side, but due to both of them using real time analysis, I would expect similar results on phishing. When it comes to malware downloads, I would expect better performance from McAfee due to more users, more telemetry, more innovation…. Everything at McAfee is just MORE than Webroot.
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