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I don't think anybody actually installs them on purpose. A lot of systems come with McAfee (Lenovo) or others pre-installed. Interesting point, I've even has a
by yonatan8070 3d ago
I don't think anybody actually installs them on purpose. A lot of systems come with McAfee (Lenovo) or others pre-installed.
Interesting point, I've even has a Lenovo Legion and some ThinkBooks install McAfee autonomously after I installed Windows 11 Pro.
In enterprise environments it's a different story, McAfee and the like have similarly named products for the enterprise which actually do useful things for corporate security (like blocking unauthorized USB devices, blocking unauthorized software, reporting incidents to a central SOC system, etc.)
- user2722 3d agoI do install them. This day only ClamAV I guess. I used (paid for) ESET Linux before they cancelled their Linux consumer line. On the fence about trying Kaspersky AV Linux. Wouldn't install their suite on Windows though, last I looked at it hooked too many places, causing weird bugs and slowing everything down. Less bad than Comodo, which was able to bork Cygwin, but still.