McAfee WebAdvisor Add-On Warning

[Annailis]

My new laptop came with a one-year subscription to McAfee LiveSafe. The
WebAdvisor add-on seems okay in Firefox so far but it is Hell in
Thunderbird. I should have known better than to check that little box!
Kept crashing Thunderbird before I could disable it. Had to nuke the
profile and completely uninstall Thunderbird then reinstall with a good
copy of the profile, etc.

AW

[Tanstaafl]

Best way to fis this permanently is to uninstall Macafee ... permanently.

Use anything but Macafee or Norton. Best free (imnsho) is BitDefender
Free, best paid is ESET.

[Wolf K.]

On 2016-08-08 08:18, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 8/7/2016 12:09 PM, Annailis <anna...@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>> My new laptop came with a one-year subscription to McAfee LiveSafe. The
>> WebAdvisor add-on seems okay in Firefox so far but it is Hell in
>> Thunderbird. I should have known better than to check that little box!
>> Kept crashing Thunderbird before I could disable it. Had to nuke the
>> profile and completely uninstall Thunderbird then reinstall with a good
>> copy of the profile, etc.
>
> Best way to fis this permanently is to uninstall Macafee ... permanently.

++1

> Use anything but Macafee or Norton. Best free (imnsho) is BitDefender
> Free, best paid is ESET.

I prefer not to use "best", but both are excellent programs, as are many
others.

--
Best,
Wolf K.
kirkwood40.blogspot.ca

[Keith Nuttle]

As with many other things in computers, those big players in the market
place are bad.

However I have been using McAfee for decades and never had any problems
It has done its job reliably. However I never use McAfee advisor in
Thunderbird. First Thunderbird is a email and newsgroup reader, and not
a web browser. (Yes it can browse the web, but Firefox is more efficient)

Since all you are opening are email and newsgroup messages, the McAfee
Advisor is not needed. This is assuming that you are allowing all
files to be scanned before they are opened, though I have read that all
incoming attachments to email do not need to be scanned. Only when opened.

[Annailis]

The McAfee LiveSafe is a free one-year subscription so I'll keep it for
that time period only unless WebAdvisor once again becomes troublesome.
I won't rely on it solely for security.

AW

[Annailis]

I had Avast with my old laptop and set it not to scan emails outgoing or
incoming. I won't be enabling WebAdvisor in Thunderbird again for sure.

AW