Mike400
(Mike400)
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I had a student bring me his Lenovo Windows 11 laptop today and he had an out-of-date McAfee AV installed by Lenovo. He had just been clicking the box to ignore the prompt to purchase McAfee. I uninstalled it and verified Windows Defender was up, running, and updated. Then I tried to verify Core Isolation and discovered that it wouldn’t turn on, nor could I get the list of drivers causing the problem. I then noticed that the McAfee Web-protection application was running. Turns out this application requires cross process access to connect to the browser, and it does this via the OS Kernal which isn’t allowed under Core Isolation scenarios. Uninstalling this application and Core Isolation turned on immediately.
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At this point, I would consider McAfee to be a virus and I would trust Defender before I trust McAfee
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I’ve found that applications that were originally designed in the early Win 10 days or even prior and only updated enough for “compatibility” with the latest versions of Windows 10 from lower-tier providers and less well-developed apps run into this issue, i.e. basically software to avoid in business and educational environments. One wouldn’t expect this from McAfee, once a big Intel partner, but there ya go.
It honestly probably provides less protection than an up-to-date and properly configured Microsoft Defender.
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McAffee should never be on any computer ever for any reason.
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All PC suppliers receive money to add extra software to it and AV programmes are one of the extra softwares and those software vendors hope for extra sales after the “free” period runs out. Unfortunately, there are many users who don’t want to spend more after the so called free period runs out and hence as Windows updates and the AV whatever doesn’t then compatibility is not assured. In some ways it is bad practice by the PC makers to load extras in the PC build but they will argue that it enables them to reduce the PC cost. For most home users Microsoft Defender is fine and will be updated. Remnants of McAfee should not be left by the uninstall.
One of the big telco providers in Canada, bundle McAfee Security for all their home internet subscribers.
