* Posts by obr

2 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Sep 2016

McAfee-the-man wants McAfee-the-brand, Chipzilla says no

obr

Glad I could help :)

Funny thing you mention though is regarding all the Win32 malware on your Mac. I work with a lot of customers who require AV on their *nix (although not necessarily Mac) systems thinking that it will protect them. The vast (like >99%) of the signatures in that AV are for detecting Win malware that could reside on the *nix filesystem (handy if you use that *nix box as some sort of fileserver or whatnot) but the signatures are not generally for protecting those boxen even if it's labelled "super-awesome *nix viruscatcher".

If you want to protect *nix then you gotta use whitelisting. EOM.

obr

Re: The well was poisoned long ago

You removed the management platform and the agent without removing the AV or FW modules.

Product Guide Page 26: https://kc.mcafee.com/resources/sites/MCAFEE/content/live/PRODUCT_DOCUMENTATION/26000/PD26214/en_US/ensm_1010_pg_0_00_en_us.pdf

Funny that you'd wipe the disk but not spend <10 secs googling [mcafee endpoint security mac 10.1 product guide] and then searching that document for "uninstall".