# McAfee or Norton AntiVirus \[please no debates\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-or-norton-antivirus-please-no-debates/78787>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 29, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-or-norton-antivirus-please-no-debates/78787 "2001-08-29T19:53:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-or-norton-antivirus-please-no-debates/78787/21 "2001-09-04T02:07:55Z")

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I’m not sure if McAfee is a virus scan or just a virus.

Some of the versions had a nasty habit of hanging my Windows 95 startup.

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-or-norton-antivirus-please-no-debates/78787/22 "2001-09-04T11:52:50Z")

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“I’m not sure if McAfee is a virus scan or just a virus.”  
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    - Come to think of it, maybe it _did_ work: shutting off all I/O, for security purposes… - MC

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**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2001, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-or-norton-antivirus-please-no-debates/78787/23 "2001-09-04T14:13:59Z")

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Tastes great!!

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcafee-or-norton-antivirus-please-no-debates/78787/24 "2001-09-05T02:31:14Z")

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McAffee had not crashed me out when starting Windows 95 for several weeks, until just now, the first time I booted since posting my negative comment about McAffee. The damn thing must be reading my posts. It’s self aware, it’s intelligent, and it’s evil.

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