- Jun 5, 2014
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hello everyone, some old MalwareTips members know me was an active member but now I'm mostly silent and read our member's posts and opinions.
I installed the new McAfee and want to point out some weaknesses in it. everyone talks about how light it is and it went to first place in AV-C performance test.
the new McAfee does not scan the files on sight! it just does that if the user scans it manually or the file is executed. for example, if you download a malware in zip so the web protection can not see it you can extract the file, can copy and paste it anywhere even on external drives(USB, external HDD) and the new McAfee does not react.
so in reality you can pass malware to others without any action and prevention from the new McAfee antivirus. their real-time detection is on execution only and not on access. For me, this is a huge security risk, a normal antivirus should react when you access a new file, or if they want to be like McAfee it should at least react on copy-pasting to/from USB and external drives.
from detection apect in my tests it is good but not at the same level of big boys(kaspesky,bitdefender,checkpoint etc)
@Shadowra your opinon would be appreciated.
I installed the new McAfee and want to point out some weaknesses in it. everyone talks about how light it is and it went to first place in AV-C performance test.
the new McAfee does not scan the files on sight! it just does that if the user scans it manually or the file is executed. for example, if you download a malware in zip so the web protection can not see it you can extract the file, can copy and paste it anywhere even on external drives(USB, external HDD) and the new McAfee does not react.
so in reality you can pass malware to others without any action and prevention from the new McAfee antivirus. their real-time detection is on execution only and not on access. For me, this is a huge security risk, a normal antivirus should react when you access a new file, or if they want to be like McAfee it should at least react on copy-pasting to/from USB and external drives.
from detection apect in my tests it is good but not at the same level of big boys(kaspesky,bitdefender,checkpoint etc)
@Shadowra your opinon would be appreciated.