Mcafee has been ranked as 20th best out of all major antivirus software, with a score of 86%.
While Avira's free antivirus was ranked 11, with a score of 94% and Avira's paid antivirus was ranked 7, with a score of 97.13%.
However mcafee costs a lot and many people use it unlike Avira. But then why mcafee performed so poorly in the latest tests conducted at
http://virus.gr/portal/en/content/2008-06%2C-1-21-june
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1 B.Sc. Math // Jul 13, 2008
i have subscription to both mcafee and avira premium. My desktop has mcafee (which is ranked 20th on your link( and my laptop has avira premium (which is ranked 7th in the link you show).
Based on my experience, i can say with absolute certainty that Avira is far better than Mcafee. My desktop keeps crashing and i have to do frequent recoveries, but on my laptop there is no need.
In fact my laptop started to crash a lot when i only used mcafee. i knew it mcafee is doing a poor job of keeping the computer running for long time without the need of recovery.
So in April i did a hard drive recovery of my laptop, and then decided to subscribe to Avira premium. Since then there has been not a single problem on my laptop.
On the desktop i did hard drive recovery too, and again installed mcafee. now its gone bad again.
An example would be as follows. Consider Mcafee to be a Ford sedan. Avira would be a 7 series BMW.
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