My version of McAfee has:
virus protection
spyware protection
a firewall
system guards
something called "windows protection."
a site advisor
My question is about viruses and certain websites that might affect my computer. I have a thing on my protection software called a site advisor (spell check however you spell advisor) that tells me whether a website is safe or not with a green check mark meaning it’s okay, to a red X that say’s it is not okay.
I accidentally clicked on a red site that had "breached browser security." I got out of that site in my guess of less than one second. I made the mistake of going to a site like that before and I spent five minutes in it and five minutes later my software detected a virus. Though this time, it didn’t, supposing that it was because I got out of there fast enough.
With all of the things that I have for protection, do you think I’m okay or do you think I should wipe out my computer? The computer isn’t acting weird at all. I’m afraid because I heard that some viruses can attach to your computer and people can get personal information. For example, if I wanted to buy something online could a hacker do something to get that information? I’m guessing they could.
Also, there’s this site called megavideo, like Youtube. Every time I click on the play button, it pops up a window to a different site. My site advisor say’s it’s okay, but I wonder.
Help please? Thanks.
One-more-thing, people have said that McAfee is bad, but I’ve been using it for two years and it hasn’t done anything bad at all. It’s a good program.
I also have Spybot Search and Destroy. That works great, but if anyone has any better opinions for a program better than that then I would appreciate it.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 X D // Jun 30, 2009
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Answer 1
Your computer should be fine,
Just run a virus scan, you probably got out before your computer was harmed.
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Answer 2
I would trust MegaVideo if your site advisor didn’t show a problem.
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2 Mr. Crowley // Jun 30, 2009
You’re safe. If you are able to update McAfee and browse the internet, you’re fine. McAfee is a good program, better than anything you can get for free (AVG, Avast, Avira, etc).
As a side note, Kaspersky and Norton Internet Security 2009 are also very good suites.
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