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Post Date: 2016-09-16
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    Posted: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:58pm
DST, why do you always recommend ESET over Macafe? Is it because of Macafe's false positives? Does ESET do better with games?
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Mcafee's #1 problem is that is a resource hog, if you check eset is running 2 processes in the background, mcafee is running something between 7 to 10 depending.

And after running all those processes you would think it would do a better job, nope, its slower, heavier, has more false positives, and is not as good in detection when compared to other AVs like eset, or avira, and etc.

I made a post about it somewhere here are the results of a comparison done by a third party creditable site:







eset has a game mode you can turn on so it won't mess with games but worst case scenario you are 2 clicks away from disabling the av or the firewall anytime you need.

Edited by DST4ME - 16 Sep 2016 at 11:16pm

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Originally posted by DST4ME

Mcafee's #1 problem is that is a resource hog, if you check eset is running 2 processes in the background, mcafee is running something between 7 to 10 depending.

And after running all those processes you would think it would do a better job, nop, its slower, heavier, has more false positives, and is not as good in detection when compared to other AVs like eset, or avant, and etc.

I made a post about it somewhere here are the results of a comparison done by a third party creditable site:




Gotcha, thanks for the response!
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My pleasure and good luck

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Avast and bit defender are probably the top choices along kapersky, McAfee is the virus...

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Avast and bit defender are ok also but I would get eset before those. All are good

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Bit Defender is awesome! I have had all the above mentioned and BD seems to be simply the best imo.
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