Battle Norton vs McAfee

[3link9]

The question of the century! Which do you like the best?

Me? Norton.
Norton has improved a lot over the past couple of years... Symantec is going in the right direction but I wish Symantec offered Norton antivirus for free.... but I don't think that would ever happen.

I used McAfee in the past.... Viruses infected me and slowed my computer down when updating and it was a resource hog.... so I choose Norton!

 

[MDRockstar]

Norton for me and by far! Norton internet security is light and
Mcaffe protection against zero day threat is weak compared to norton.

 

[WinAndLinuxTutorials]

Of course Norton. I think that McAfee is owned by Intel, isn't it?

 

[3link9]

Of course Norton. I think that McAfee is owned by Intel, isn't it?

Yeah.

 

[Ink]

I don't think McAfee is worthy for consumer users, their products seem better for corporate environments.

 

[Tom172]

I don't think McAfee is worthy for consumer users, their products seem better for corporate environments.

This is the case. McAfee is extremely popular in the corporate world. Norton products are much more refined compared to McAfee's consumer offerings and offer more features. McAfee struggles to detect Zero-day threats.

 

[3link9]

I agree, I'll put it this way:

Home/Personal use: Norton
Corporate use: McAfee

 

[DiabloBlack]

McAfee ain't all that in a corporate environment. I still believe it is heavy on systems and does not perform as well as Symantec Endpoint Protection. At home all of the computers use Norton Internet Security.

 

[Nathan Wootton]

this should be named protection vs nothing LOL

 

[McLovin]

Mine would have to be Norton because its light weight on the system and is excellent against zero day malware. Plus last time I installed McAfee it kept giving me BSOD so got rid of it.

My choice Norton.

 

[win7holic]

without thinking any longer, I instantly chose NORTON.

 

[moonshine]

Norton absolutely wins over McAfee. Any expert can say this. Mainly because Norton protects much better than McAfee.

 

[Viking]

Norton, hands down!

 

[Deleted member 178]

McAfee is what Norton was 4-5 years ago. A weak AV widely distributed by an efficient marketing team.

I choose Norton.

 

[jamescv7]

Norton made a major changes on their products thus one of the top notch. McAfee needs more improvements since it didn't well at any testing organizations or reviewed by user.

 

[Littlebits]

I don't think McAfee is worthy for consumer users, their products seem better for corporate environments.

My local government has used McAfee since about 2000, but recently switched to FortiClient.
The main reason is false positives, the last false positive disabled military and government systems for almost a week caused offices to close, workers were sent home and money was loss.

This was the forth time this had happened recently because of McAfee's false positives. Other businesses in my area switch over to Sophos because McAfee was costing them too much profit loss. The false positives wasn't the minor kinds, is was the kind that completely disabled systems where they had to be repaired by computer techs.

McAfee has got much worse while Norton continues to improve. So there is no doubt Norton would be the better choice.

Thanks.