Is McAfee really that bad?

In April they issued an update that accidentally targeted legitimate Windows system files, causing the updated boxes to bluescreen. Astounding enterprise-level incompetence.

That might be excusable once (not really), but the problem is they do it every 3 months. Seriously, stay away from this stuff.

Oh yeah, McAFee has given blue screen to me many times. I bought Dell laptop for me and my gf. After McAFee free one year subscription expired, we decided to move to different anti virus. Once we uninstalled McAfee, both of our laptops got blue screens and crashed. My friend also had same experience with two of his computers.

This happened to me too just this past week; the only resolution was a full system restore. Pretty shocking.

From what I've heard, Intel HQ was hit by this as well.

maybe they weighed their options, and found that buying the company straight for 7 billion is cheaper than suffering through more downtime caused by McAfee software.

After buying Secure Computing and then discontinuing the SnapGear I know I'm not terribly happy with them.

Snap Gear was awesome. Used an SG565 for some research we were doing. Best wireless router/UTM I have ever owned.

Disclosure: Used to work for Secure Computing, but not the snapgear division.

McAfee is a resource hog.