McAfee Home And Office Beta Testing Program

HellasVagabond · Jul 14, 2007

McAfee a world leader in Anti-Virus related programs has just opened its newest AV suite to the public for beta testing.
"McAfee's Home and Home Office Beta Program allows you to try our latest software before we release it to the public. You'll have the opportunity to provide feedback directly to McAfee's product development teams. Learn more about McAfee's Home and Home Office Beta Rewards program (US Residents)."

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Dippyskoodlez · Jul 14, 2007

Anti-virus........ beta.

Is that like beta-testing a condom?

Here, try this! It might work this time!

HellasVagabond · Jul 14, 2007

McAfee, Norton, Panda, ESET are a few of the AV companies that beta test their AV suites, i know cause i do it all the time.
I dont see whats the problem with that...New options, new probes, new strings they can all produce bugs, thats why these tests exist.

Dippyskoodlez · Jul 14, 2007

HellasVagabond said:
McAfee, Norton, Panda, ESET are a few of the AV companies that beta test their AV suites, i know cause i do it all the time.
I dont see whats the problem with that...New options, new probes, new strings they can all produce bugs, thats why these tests exist.

But for protection? :laugh:

Purposefully throw virus's at it? :eek:

HellasVagabond · Jul 14, 2007

They aint checking if their AVs are good when it comes to cleaning viruses Dippy, they are testing them to find out BUGS in systems like Vista and generally 64 bit systems which are rather new, find bugs from new options bugs with the liveupdate and stuff like that. I for once wouldnt like to buy an AV and have problems with it.

kwchang007 · Jul 14, 2007

HellasVagabond said:
McAfee, Norton, Panda, ESET are a few of the AV companies that beta test their AV suites, i know cause i do it all the time.
I dont see whats the problem with that...New options, new probes, new strings they can all produce bugs, thats why these tests exist.

how's the new mcafee look?

HellasVagabond · Jul 14, 2007

Appearence wise not much different than the last one....Other than that it runs smooth so far....Not that i have any viruses or trojans to feed it with

WarEagleAU · Jul 14, 2007

Thanks Hellas. Im gonna give this a go. I currently use Avast for my antivirus (no firewall as my DSL router has a hardware firewall) and I like it. I used to use McAfee long ago (5.0 and 6.0) and I loved it.

Casheti · Jul 15, 2007

MacAffee is horrible and should die.

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