in that case what is a true decent antivirus that does the job without telling me that the nuclear codes are gonna be leaked if i dont buy the premium version ?
malware bytes is pretty good but windows defender does the job just fine too so I don't really see any use on installing antivirus,, they can be pretty shady
I seriously hate when laptops come pre-installed with these stuff. my cousin was so scared that "there was a malware in his computer" he drove like 2 hours for me to check it out. it was just one of those mcAfee ads
@Legosploiter if pre-installed software says that you have malware, when you clearly don't, without even checking, this is literally a fraud and "pure text" doesn't matter.
@@MikhaMikhin some android tablet vendors get away with pre installing adups fota (nasty spyware and package installer) like chumi or some other lesser known vendors
i was told from one of my tech teachers that MCAffe is harder to get rid of than actual malware. and that was back when i had a crappy pc and MCAffe came with it, and it took abot 80% of the ''disc'' in task manager. he straight up laughed and cringing about how useless this program was. anyway havent had that since.
Your teacher is right. I used to have mcafee preinstalled and it's just straight up a virus. It won't let me update or uninstall. I have use the tool from their official site and other methods and it still failed. I need to use Revo uninstaller to force remove of all it files. It take me litteraly 6 months to completly uninstall it, I would rather be infected with a real virus than having mcafee preinstalled lol
My sister(who has the uncanny ability to break any piece of technology she touches) got TONS of these daily, and I only figured this out when I went to look at her computer.
Small tip: get her Linux, install VM and launch Windows in VM That way restoring system will just require deleting virtual drive and copying it, instead of full reinstalling
@@neijrr to be honest, if his/her sister is just browsing the web and dont do much word processing then a linux install (preferably a user-friendly, windows like distro or immutable distro) is just fine. Just make a normal user with everything almost locked down, and has no sudo and su privileges....
@@user-pd6ev9gb7j Windows Defender is kinda enought for the avarage user i think ngl but some laptop industries like to add macfire on their laptops its insane even in other countrys too
bro my dad bought the mcafee thing and 3 months later it was destroying my ram, using it upto 90%, straight up removed that thing into the shadow realm. Used spyhunter and it saw it as a virus lmao
My dad used to use Norton. We knew something was up when it started blocking sites like TH-cam and also blocked us from using every game on our system. Only games we had were Slime Rancher which was installed through Steam and Minecraft. Steam was also blocked.
This kind of stuff is nuts. My friend at one point got one of those Norton pages from the BLIZZARD launcher. Just goes to show that you can't trust anyone in our modern society, which, weirdly enough, includes antivirus companies.
Can't trust corps. Can't trust normal people. Can't trust reviews. Can't trust the "news". Can't trust the government. Can't trust the police. Can't trust me. Can't trust you. The world has truly become a 'dystopian image' of it's former self.
I actually willingly use Norton mainly because my father gets a family plan for free from his job and its actually pretty solid. However if I had to pay for it myself it certainly wouldn't be a good buy.
*Avast, or at least its free version, looks very much like a scam too.* *It does nothing but annoying you with buying the license, while ignoring trojans and other malware.*
Back in like 2017 mcafee ads started popping up on my computer when I didn’t even have it installed, it was telling me that there was tons of malware on my computer, and viruses really creeped me out at the time, so little 8 or 9 year old me probably ended up shitting himself and crying because of mcafee
Hey Enderman, can you talk about these topics next: 1. Avast and AVG's PUP tactics 2. Registry Cleaners 3. Why Opera is included in scareware 4. Thoughts about mobile optimizers 5. HowTo Basics for the computer illiterate
I used to use Norton and my computer was slowed down to the point it could barely run Minecraft, took a few minutes to boot up, and it took at least 30 seconds to load up google chrome. Then I got a new computer and it took a bit less than 10 seconds to load google chrome, a minute or so to boot up, and Minecraft was not runnable because it ran at less than a frame per second. Idk if it was because I had mcafee but now I built my new computer and it boots and loads stuff so fast and I can actually run games I’m so happy Edit: I didn’t install any anti viruses and I don’t know if I will
I always leave my stuff to Windows Defender and it has never let me down! I honestly think Windows 3rd party antiviruses are worthless cause your built in antivirus is as good as them in keeping track of your pc's safety and is not as bloated
Yeah i'd say Windows Defender is good enough so long as you have good browsing habits (such as using an adblocker and knowing not to click literally every link).
Oh, just in case anyone wants to know - these browser pop-ups are (often) enabled by your own action (remember the "allow notifications to proceed" "captcha" you clicked yes on?). If you want to disable these without pulling up the website from the video, you can also click the "More options" button on these pop-ups, which should direct you to a page that'll let you disable notifications altogether, or from selected websites
All antiviruses are a scam, avast and avg too. Although they really scan your pc for viruses, but they just keep on annoy you to upgrade to premium or something
avast, kaspersky and windows defender: shows notification when I put in a usb or a suspious app norton and mcafee: Notification every 2 seconds and says "jobs in usa for india" -real sus-
I will just use Firefox and after I quit it shows a notification for me to put Kaspersky into Firefox even if I already have it.With chrome too. Only if you use the browser though.But after I saw this video better than McAfee
Idk what's with the avast free version slander I have used avast for my whole life (free) and I have never had an issue with it removing viruses or being "nagging"
@@NebulaTheOfficial I also downloaded Avast "Free" Antivirus once. It was the worst antivirus I have ever seen. It told me to buy premium 24/7, used 100% ram and cpu, and completely fried my pc. I had to delete it immediately. And plus you probably use a older version of avast.
Norton was actually good in the 1990s, but I don’t know any era where McAfee ever was. Some of these phony pop-ups even try to come up on some sites on a tablet, but fortunately they’re trivial to circumvent. :-)
I remember around 2012 everybody I asked said it was the best antivirus currently on market... they stopped saying that around 2014 and most of them switched to alternatives. I give it a good possibility it was decent back then
Ah yes, these are the kinds of antiviruses which are bundled on ASUS and Lenovo. ASUS and Lenovo is literally bundled with McAfee. Not sure why HP also has McAfee too.
Norton used to be solid, but about a year ago I think, they redid the app and now it just spams messages saying to upgrade for pc optimization and crypto mining services and wierd stuff like that.
I used to use Norton Security from 2015-2020 and that's when I realized it slowed down my computer too much, forced me to pay more, and took a lot of disk space. Now I am using Trend Micro to see if it is any better and I am not likely to use an antivirus next year as I use another computer a lot and I am fine without an anti-virus on it.
could you possibly do a video about free AVs that have turned into PUP's over the years? like AVG and Avast? I'm a huge fan of your channel, by the way and you were the one that inspired me to do computer science and applied IT at college
@@ImusingX yeah the free version gives loads of unnecessary popups now and it's just not needed and it attempts to make you pay for it. It behaves like a rogue tbh
@@ImusingX yes, it keeps showing you garbage to scare you into buying it (stuff like showing a map of where you live saying how "aagh everyone can see this if you don't buy our antivirus" ) , it's awful
@@xenon3404 It's considered as malware now. Remove it, and fucking never try to install it back or something, do a savestate of your computer rn, and yo'ure good
@@HyperXeno It’s bloatware/adware. You get fake notifications like: YOUR COMPUTER HAS VIRUS RENEW SUBSCRIPTION NOW FOR NO VIRUS Most OEMs pre-install it on their systems, because the average consumer will think that it’s legit, and keep installing bloatware and adware. Dell (In LTTs Secret Shopper Series) pre installed McAffe despite them repeatedly saying no.
@@gmdking i use mcafee but it's actually pretty brilliant at protecting my pc and i havent really every gotten a notification from the app leaving the monthly scans but other than that it doesnt really seem like malware
I absolutely burst into laughter on the ransomware mimicker notification... It's sad, saying "no" to notifications should be default net behavior... but why this is legal and happily allowed by web browsers is beyond me..
"money" Ad revenue makes corporations a lot of money. Even if the ad is garbage/includes shit that is bad. Ahem google is the worse with it's ad sense. shit is used by practically everyone now days.
@@katsudon2048 this is a perfectly reasonable thing to complain about. it's one thing if scam operators do this, but reputable companies have *no business* pulling these stunts. it is unethical and immoral. it rightly should be illegal. good case to argue for false advertisement and fraud since the only "infection" here is the serviceworker for their stupid notifications. there's no excuse for this kind of behavior, and it's one of the many so-called "dark patterns" crafted explicitly with the intent of manipulating and misleading users into actions they wouldn't normally commit to.
Spamming someone with notifications costs barely anything at all. Not even a fraction of a cent. Even if only 0.01% of people actually click on it and buy the product, you can still turn a profit. You do not need a high click per impression rate to turn a profit when the cost per impression is that low.
God.. I have an "antivirus" on my computer called Segurazo or Santivirus. Idk how it got there I guess it came with the tablet but it does absolutely nothing. The actual windows defender doesn't do anything to get rid of it, and it doesn't let me uninstall cause "the files are locked and I must restart"
ugh my first two laptops came preinstalled with norton and mcafee respectively, mcafee was the most annoying because it kept deleting oneshot's game files (yes, that included the exe) claiming they were malicious, it did this twice until i figured out it was mcafee's fault and disabled real time scanning
Note when you go to the purchase page there’s an affiliate ID in the URL. Could very well be a third party advertising their Affiliate URL through those fake popups just to get their cut of any sales.
I use Kaspersky and SuperAntiSpyware in combo on my system, both paid. McAfee and Avast did nothing but scare me with ads and refuse to block anything without premium payment. I like Kaspersky in particular because of how many parts it covers on a 3-system license, more than what Malwarebytes would save on a 1-pc license.
Unfortunately my parents enjoy using McAfee and Norton and have forced me to install it on my laptop, even though I’m an adult, they ignore me and suggest I use McAfee or Norton to protect my computer, even though Norton goes off every time I log into an account because it’s like, ‘Oh your account is compromised’, it could be something that hasn’t even experienced a data breach and Norton would think I just compromised my own accounts by just logging into them, even when I change the password just to appease it and then log back in, it still stays that my account is ‘compromised’
that’s why you must move away, you can’t rely on people to not be terrible, even family can’t be trusted to full extent to not mess up, raising your child to be smarter than you doesn’t make you smarter
I sadly have Norton.. I know that its a scam but my father doesnt know that and is paying is it yearly to keep it running on our systems how do I tell him that its a scam?
One of those somehow slipped into my device that is supposed to not allow those and guess what? It was the McAfee one. The popup was right where I was about to click and it OPENED UP A MALWARE FILLED WEBSITE.
My dad discovered that McAfee on laptops is really impacting performance, and we NEVER installed it again. And Norton? It *was* good in 2000, but now now.
@@Cycles42 nah, I use external drives for anything important, and I have a little library of 7z archives when I haven’t played a game in a few months. Guess it might be unpacking it, but even just plain old mem checks are takin like 4 times as long
Hey, since you were infected with a malware it might show you mcafee to make you believe you are paying for mcafee, but instead it will actually take all your payment details and drain money
I remember my aunts computer having Norton many years ago, and it was so slow. I got my own some time after, and it had Norton too. I removed it and it became much faster. :D
Not just that, whenever I literally open a new Chrome window in my school laptop, there is a McAfee popup showing these useless antivirus information for my computer. I don't get why schools put this kind of trash, they are like when grandmas download a fake antivirus program without even realizing it. So this is why I use Malwarebytes and Avast only.
i like how the fake ransomware alert at 3:29 tells you "upgrade your antivirus to unlock your files" as if black hats would even outright tell you how to remove the malware that you installed
I'm still surprised how people still get virusses those days. I've been using Windows Defender for 4 years now without a single notification of some sus things going on my PC.
Windows defender and good antiviruses be like: *notification* there are no threats in this usb mcafee and norton be like: how to delete big malware on ur pc step 1. buy premium 999.99 per month step 2: click on this totally not virus link step 3: download this totally not virus exe
Bruh you know what's insane? My grandparents, mother, and father use and pay for Norton. I told my mom I uninstalled Norton one day, and she was appalled at the idea. She asked me why, and I told her it's bullshit and anyone with half a brain can just use windows defender.
My PC came with McAffe free for 1 month pre installed, It took me over an hour to start the PC the first time because I thought it froze because it constantly was loading on a black screen. it was the same after I installed the latest windows system updates to keep my PC up to date and it didn’t felt right. It was also the same if I just restarted my PC and it took sometimes half an hour to boot the system up. once my 1 month free subscription ended I just deleted McAfee from my PC and the computer changed completely in a good way. It felt like the program took some control over my system and it felt weird.
so if McAffee is now a scam, does that means windows security does all the work? I paid 2M IDR (139.82 USD) for the software and it's been included in my device since I bought it edit: the subscription is still ongoing & I gonna pay another one in a few years, should I cancel the subscription or just make my money worth? 2 million is a lot tho
Yeh don't pay for it install eset internet security it gets the job done honestly they give u a 30 day trial which If u don't like it then u can simply uninstall it
I once got this on my laptop, when I wasn't experienced, and oh man, it was such a pain to get rid of. You just explain how to remove it in a few minutes! I feel bad...
McAfee is actually a bloatware which uses too much pc resources. I caused problem in my laptop as it was pre-installed. Right click menu won't appear for 2-3 minutes after clicking it for first time after bootup. Took me 2-3 days to figure that McAfee was the culprit.
As someone with Norton I can confirm it’s a pain in the ass, they would repeatedly spam me with pop up’s and for no reason open a Microsoft edge tab to be their browser, I have chrome set as my default browser
Havent watched the video yet, but I REALLY agree with the title. I am unfortunate that I have to use an HDD 6gb ram laptop with extremely slow speeds for anything I do, whether it be programming, gaming, or even browsing the web. Mccafee and all those other programs seem to be permanently active when I check the task manager when the laptop starts freezing up on simple tasks, and no matter how much I "End Task" the Mccafee processes, it does nothing or says "permission denied". And with my older desktop PC from around 2005, I get shockingly faster speeds than my much newer laptop, and it has no anti-virus other than the bare minimum Windows Defender software already built-in. I was led to believe it was these bad anti-virus apps and I was right, lol.
Widnows defender is a solid antivirus, it does not have a flashy UI but gets the job done, has little performance on the system, has great detection for malware and is absolutley free with your copy of windows. I don't see how a regular user could need something else besides windows defender and common sense.
It have flaws, like, eating your ram like candy bar all the freaking time, it's annoying, i want to be able to disable it permanently and reactivate it when i'm downloading stuff and all it's really... well, boring to use
@@ZERARCHIVE2023 hmmmmm, for me never uses more than a GB of ram and you can easily disable it and enable it whenever you want for as long as you want lol
@@ZNEIC1 first. A GB of ram is a LOT. If a program takes so much up, it's useless bloat. If you disable it it will nag you for an eternity until either you turn it back on or it will turn on on its own. It's also really bad at detecting viruses but that's understandable since the only real putpose for that is to not let you activate your windows for free(the only files that it didn't even allow to stay on the hard drive were the activators)
@@ZNEIC1 or maybe you're a careless boy who just doesn't care to find that out. All of the stuff that I said was based on my long term experience with it
my pc came with McAfee i never got those pop up ads and it kinda did save me from from virus and links i clicked on now thats its expried can windows defender still protect me from viruses
Windows Defender is good enough unless you go to execute some sus exe on ur own free will. Windows Defender would actively search for viruses on ur PC and delete them even.
And this is where I strongly recommend Malwarebytes, it's free and offers many things, like when one day I installed adware and spyware on a PC (which wasn't even mine lol), literally at that time Malwarebyte saved my ass from possibly the most savage reprimand I was going to receive in my life lmao
Well it depends, any actually good hacker would like linux users, because using linux = being a programmer = you have few private files that may interset the hacker.
@@septercatyou really think a user needs to be a programmer, hacker, or advanced computer user to use linux No Absolutely not I in fact dont know much about how it works But it has no ads, its free, fast, and easy to use
I think one of the school computers has scam ads. I seen few times that some Antivirus on my PC says that there is Spring offer for 1 hour. But it is Fall, not Spring, so it is very sus.
One time i had a dream where my trusty malwarebytes became a discount mcafee (no window styling or anything) I was scared because my greatest fear is my computer getting worst virus ever (im on mac) I had no idea what McAfee was. I looked it up on google when i woke up from fear.
actually the REAL norton/mcafee apps are real, not scams its just that they use illegal practices to trick ppl to get their antivirus to make money so yes they are completely safe
Because it never does. I’ve been using Norton for a while and it hasn’t caused me major trouble. Sure, Norton might not be the best antivirus, (which in theory it’s true ) only True claim that this dude stated is the fact that Norton takes up a good amount of your computers ram. Other than that, Norton should be safe. Also, those notifications were not even from the real websites. There’s something called scam, and this dude has probably never heard of it.
in that case what is a true decent antivirus that does the job without telling me that the nuclear codes are gonna be leaked if i dont buy the premium version ?
malware bytes is pretty good but windows defender does the job just fine too so I don't really see any use on installing antivirus,, they can be pretty shady
@@warzone2620 no :lul
not buying the premium then :)
Kaspersky.
Saved me a lot of times.
Edit: after the war it became a spyware owner by the government, i stick with windows defender
Windows defender
I seriously hate when laptops come pre-installed with these stuff. my cousin was so scared that "there was a malware in his computer" he drove like 2 hours for me to check it out. it was just one of those mcAfee ads
I think you can sue the PC seller for pre-installing this.
mine got pre-installed with those and i got an ad saying there is a malware going to implanted in my pc if i dont renew my subscription lmao
@Legosploiter if pre-installed software says that you have malware, when you clearly don't, without even checking, this is literally a fraud and "pure text" doesn't matter.
@Zacharia Ahmad it's easy to do yourself tbh, you can also just reinstall windows if you have a prebuilt
@@MikhaMikhin some android tablet vendors get away with pre installing adups fota (nasty spyware and package installer) like chumi or some other lesser known vendors
i was told from one of my tech teachers that MCAffe is harder to get rid of than actual malware.
and that was back when i had a crappy pc and MCAffe came with it, and it took abot 80% of the ''disc'' in task manager. he straight up laughed and cringing about how useless this program was.
anyway havent had that since.
Yeah there's literally tools to uninstall McAfee because sometimes uninstalling it the normal way fails or doesn't get rid of everything.
Your teacher is right. I used to have mcafee preinstalled and it's just straight up a virus. It won't let me update or uninstall. I have use the tool from their official site and other methods and it still failed. I need to use Revo uninstaller to force remove of all it files. It take me litteraly 6 months to completly uninstall it, I would rather be infected with a real virus than having mcafee preinstalled lol
@@prototry am I the only one who deleted mc afee in under 1 hour
@@prototry wait, 6 months? guess im gonna have a hard time removing that virus
@@prototry I paid for it and it’s so good. Doesn’t even use 2% gpu, disc, cpu, or anything. It’s goated
Pro tip: if you are someone who is not looking at suspicious stuff and/or a business.. The default windows defender is more that adequate.
I look at suspicious stuff but the ones I go to are like run by actual good people who don’t want to give you viruses
I searched windows defender and it showed McAfee
Are they the same peeps?
@@Youmu_Konpaku_ no
What would you recommend
@@AR-24 malwarebytes
My sister(who has the uncanny ability to break any piece of technology she touches) got TONS of these daily, and I only figured this out when I went to look at her computer.
Small tip: get her Linux, install VM and launch Windows in VM
That way restoring system will just require deleting virtual drive and copying it, instead of full reinstalling
@@neijrr to be honest, if his/her sister is just browsing the web and dont do much word processing then a linux install (preferably a user-friendly, windows like distro or immutable distro) is just fine. Just make a normal user with everything almost locked down, and has no sudo and su privileges....
If she does basic things, then get her a chromebook
I think that's a common thing in every sister :D
@@ChimeraX0401 mint
I miss the times when antimalware programs were a requirement, instead of being malware themselves
They really arent necessary rn.
good pfp
They were always a scam. Pretty sure McAfee used to make viruses to sell his product in the 90s.
@@user-pd6ev9gb7j Windows Defender is kinda enought for the avarage user i think ngl but some laptop industries like to add macfire on their laptops its insane even in other countrys too
me two
bro my dad bought the mcafee thing and 3 months later it was destroying my ram, using it upto 90%, straight up removed that thing into the shadow realm. Used spyhunter and it saw it as a virus lmao
i had the same with avast it was every damn single day using like 100% ram when turning on, so i threw it
English as second language.
The comment seems to not say who detects who as a virus, but both options are possible for their own reasons.
@MecherWulf I thought Windows defender was the best antivirus I could get
I'm not wrong, it's the best free antivirus I ever seen
My dad used to use Norton. We knew something was up when it started blocking sites like TH-cam and also blocked us from using every game on our system. Only games we had were Slime Rancher which was installed through Steam and Minecraft. Steam was also blocked.
That is why i installed Slime Rancher on XBox (not really)
Well, uninstall this sh*t
thats insane
@KnightLite yeah, installing it through which version tho? Java? Bedrock? LEGACY CONSOLE?
@@CDSide I think they meant Minecraft 2.
This kind of stuff is nuts. My friend at one point got one of those Norton pages from the BLIZZARD launcher. Just goes to show that you can't trust anyone in our modern society, which, weirdly enough, includes antivirus companies.
haha blizzard
I once got one from a steam game
Can't trust corps. Can't trust normal people. Can't trust reviews. Can't trust the "news". Can't trust the government. Can't trust the police. Can't trust me. Can't trust you.
The world has truly become a 'dystopian image' of it's former self.
EWW NFT IM GONNNA SCREENSHOT
@@veryoriginalname2515 what.
I actually willingly use Norton mainly because my father gets a family plan for free from his job and its actually pretty solid. However if I had to pay for it myself it certainly wouldn't be a good buy.
You couldn't pay me to install that shit
They deserve to go bankrupt
Mcafee is included with my Internet plan so thats why installed it on my computer
@@My_Old_YT_Account You could, if you paid me enough to buy a whole new pc
Same my dad even bought this norton thingy which is hella annoying
"Your PC is not P O R E T E C T E D"
Thank god your PC is protected
@Bepxo Do the pores come with rgb?
@@arandomcommenter412 you have to add $69 extra to the cart to make the pores rgb
I find it nice that you are the only person who adores malwares and adwares and make the average people aware of them in a funny way!
So they can be aware of aDware? 😏😏😏
He's not the only person who adores malwares amd hate antimalwares
I love it, if it is done in a VM, just to see how much you can mess it up.
there's another good channel, but I forgot his name
I don't think he just does virus stuff though
he shows scam stuff too
@@memedew6677 *plays laughing sound* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*Avast, or at least its free version, looks very much like a scam too.*
*It does nothing but annoying you with buying the license, while ignoring trojans and other malware.*
I use avast free since 2011 after ESET bricked my pc. No problem so far after using avast.
YES WE STAN FREE AVAST SLANDER
I think it does protect you from viruses/trojans/other malware, despite the fact that it annoys you with constant popups to upgrade.
Just enable do not disturb mode. Avast will not be nagging by then.
@@PITZ24701 even then it still nags you but not as frequent
Back in like 2017 mcafee ads started popping up on my computer when I didn’t even have it installed, it was telling me that there was tons of malware on my computer, and viruses really creeped me out at the time, so little 8 or 9 year old me probably ended up shitting himself and crying because of mcafee
that is probably the most certified bruh moment
Actually those adds are from Adware not McAfee!!
Either adware or those click allow sites
Hey Enderman, can you talk about these topics next:
1. Avast and AVG's PUP tactics
2. Registry Cleaners
3. Why Opera is included in scareware
4. Thoughts about mobile optimizers
5. HowTo Basics for the computer illiterate
What about chromium (when you download a random thing and it comes with it with a dumb toolbar)
@@funnydude4682 Those are "Chromium" branded viruses/PUP's
Opera is owned by Chinese data grabbers
@ Fuck I had chromium sges ago
@beep bop skebop why i always use it on phone on pc it suks but on phone i think its nice
I use Norton and if you just keep saying “don’t show again” to the ads telling you to buy more stuff, it works great.
😂
Well, at least they're better at knowing when to stop than TH-cam.
I used to use Norton and my computer was slowed down to the point it could barely run Minecraft, took a few minutes to boot up, and it took at least 30 seconds to load up google chrome. Then I got a new computer and it took a bit less than 10 seconds to load google chrome, a minute or so to boot up, and Minecraft was not runnable because it ran at less than a frame per second. Idk if it was because I had mcafee but now I built my new computer and it boots and loads stuff so fast and I can actually run games I’m so happy
Edit: I didn’t install any anti viruses and I don’t know if I will
@@w01fy51 free Windows def if you using win 10 though
@@avlan9074 yep that’s what I use now
I always leave my stuff to Windows Defender and it has never let me down! I honestly think Windows 3rd party antiviruses are worthless cause your built in antivirus is as good as them in keeping track of your pc's safety and is not as bloated
Yeah i'd say Windows Defender is good enough so long as you have good browsing habits (such as using an adblocker and knowing not to click literally every link).
Oh, just in case anyone wants to know - these browser pop-ups are (often) enabled by your own action (remember the "allow notifications to proceed" "captcha" you clicked yes on?).
If you want to disable these without pulling up the website from the video, you can also click the "More options" button on these pop-ups, which should direct you to a page that'll let you disable notifications altogether, or from selected websites
All antiviruses are a scam, avast and avg too. Although they really scan your pc for viruses, but they just keep on annoy you to upgrade to premium or something
Except Windows Defender ;)
''Windows Defender is not enough''
Probaly all antiviruses will use this word to trick you to download their antivirus
@@wilson228 Yeah
@@wilson228 Also I play Roblox like you
or keep scanning for eternity, ruining your HDD wayyy faster than you ever could on older hardware
avast, kaspersky and windows defender: shows notification when I put in a usb or a suspious app
norton and mcafee: Notification every 2 seconds and says "jobs in usa for india" -real sus-
kapersky is pretty cool.
I will just use Firefox and after I quit it shows a notification for me to put Kaspersky into Firefox even if I already have it.With chrome too. Only if you use the browser though.But after I saw this video better than McAfee
Idk what's with the avast free version slander I have used avast for my whole life (free) and I have never had an issue with it removing viruses or being "nagging"
Like just check the comments around here you will se plenty complaining
@@NebulaTheOfficial I also downloaded Avast "Free" Antivirus once. It was the worst antivirus I have ever seen. It told me to buy premium 24/7, used 100% ram and cpu, and completely fried my pc. I had to delete it immediately. And plus you probably use a older version of avast.
Was on premiere, honestly thanks god you made video about this.
My old laptop had those poo-poo ads and had no idea how to get rid of these.
@Glauco Siqueira what
Norton was actually good in the 1990s, but I don’t know any era where McAfee ever was. Some of these phony pop-ups even try to come up on some sites on a tablet, but fortunately they’re trivial to circumvent. :-)
I remember around 2012 everybody I asked said it was the best antivirus currently on market... they stopped saying that around 2014 and most of them switched to alternatives. I give it a good possibility it was decent back then
Mcafee was good when the real mcafee owned it
@@everythingpony oh neat, nice pfp
@@ponivi thanks, i did it like 8 years ago xD
@@everythingpony John McAfee was never good.
Ah yes, these are the kinds of antiviruses which are bundled on ASUS and Lenovo. ASUS and Lenovo is literally bundled with McAfee. Not sure why HP also has McAfee too.
HP was also bundled with McAfee.
My Asus pc didn't have anything installed
lenovo is usually with mcafee
@Zacharia Ahmad Yes Dell laptops come with the McAfee thing
If I get a new PC, I will just reinstall it.
Norton used to be solid, but about a year ago I think, they redid the app and now it just spams messages saying to upgrade for pc optimization and crypto mining services and wierd stuff like that.
I used to use Norton Security from 2015-2020 and that's when I realized it slowed down my computer too much, forced me to pay more, and took a lot of disk space. Now I am using Trend Micro to see if it is any better and I am not likely to use an antivirus next year as I use another computer a lot and I am fine without an anti-virus on it.
Eww trend micro
@@NebulaTheOfficial I remember trend micro. they had hands in alot of shit including mainboard manufacture's driver disks. it was hot garbage then.
Anti Viruses are usually shit
Windows Defender goated
Only anti viruses I've seen w decent reviews are Malwarebytes and.. yea that's kinda it
could you possibly do a video about free AVs that have turned into PUP's over the years? like AVG and Avast?
I'm a huge fan of your channel, by the way and you were the one that inspired me to do computer science and applied IT at college
wtf avast is pup???
@@ImusingX yeah the free version gives loads of unnecessary popups now and it's just not needed and it attempts to make you pay for it. It behaves like a rogue tbh
@@overdoseiinstereo I used to use avast back in 2019
Avast used to be nice in early 80s to 2000s
@@ImusingX yes, it keeps showing you garbage to scare you into buying it (stuff like showing a map of where you live saying how "aagh everyone can see this if you don't buy our antivirus" ) , it's awful
My god, they were already a meme for having their software shoveled onto new PCs, and now they resort to this crap? #crapware
mcafee has f-ed up my CPU and i tried removing it but i couldnt! this video has helped me so much!! thank you
enderman!
What did it do to your CPU?
@@canyongoat2096 it got to 100
@@xenon3404 It's considered as malware now.
Remove it, and fucking never try to install it back or something, do a savestate of your computer rn, and yo'ure good
@@ZERARCHIVE2023 i already removed it
I KNEW IT My primary school uses McAfee and I've always had a suspicion that it was a virus or something. Thank you Enderman!
Not a virus, I thinks it's a bloatware
Uhm what I don't get anything wrong using a McAfee.... What did I just missed?
@@HyperXeno It’s bloatware/adware. You get fake notifications like: YOUR COMPUTER HAS VIRUS RENEW SUBSCRIPTION NOW FOR NO VIRUS
Most OEMs pre-install it on their systems, because the average consumer will think that it’s legit, and keep installing bloatware and adware.
Dell (In LTTs Secret Shopper Series) pre installed McAffe despite them repeatedly saying no.
@@gmdking ah i see
Edit: luckily my pc don't bring any pre-installed antivirus
@@gmdking i use mcafee but it's actually pretty brilliant at protecting my pc and i havent really every gotten a notification from the app leaving the monthly scans but other than that it doesnt really seem like malware
I absolutely burst into laughter on the ransomware mimicker notification...
It's sad, saying "no" to notifications should be default net behavior... but why this is legal and happily allowed by web browsers is beyond me..
"money" Ad revenue makes corporations a lot of money. Even if the ad is garbage/includes shit that is bad. Ahem google is the worse with it's ad sense. shit is used by practically everyone now days.
@@katsudon2048 this is a perfectly reasonable thing to complain about. it's one thing if scam operators do this, but reputable companies have *no business* pulling these stunts. it is unethical and immoral. it rightly should be illegal. good case to argue for false advertisement and fraud since the only "infection" here is the serviceworker for their stupid notifications. there's no excuse for this kind of behavior, and it's one of the many so-called "dark patterns" crafted explicitly with the intent of manipulating and misleading users into actions they wouldn't normally commit to.
Spamming someone with notifications costs barely anything at all. Not even a fraction of a cent. Even if only 0.01% of people actually click on it and buy the product, you can still turn a profit.
You do not need a high click per impression rate to turn a profit when the cost per impression is that low.
those beeps at 2:27 scared the life out of me lol
Same
It annoyed me.
I launched a T-800 to that dude's location.
Pray for his balls
@@ZERARCHIVE2023 what is a t-800
@@bigsof7381 A big and sexy muscular man from the 80s
that's why i use custom window borders on my pc so i instantly see what exact window is fake
how
@@randomuser5732 Winaero Tweaker probably
Those windows don't even look like the standard windows unless you're blind or something
God.. I have an "antivirus" on my computer called Segurazo or Santivirus. Idk how it got there I guess it came with the tablet but it does absolutely nothing. The actual windows defender doesn't do anything to get rid of it, and it doesn't let me uninstall cause "the files are locked and I must restart"
Oh god, I had that back then and it's a virus they say.
Wipe the slate clean, reinstall windows.
@@kwadarth That would be the best option.
ugh my first two laptops came preinstalled with norton and mcafee respectively, mcafee was the most annoying because it kept deleting oneshot's game files (yes, that included the exe) claiming they were malicious, it did this twice until i figured out it was mcafee's fault and disabled real time scanning
Note when you go to the purchase page there’s an affiliate ID in the URL. Could very well be a third party advertising their Affiliate URL through those fake popups just to get their cut of any sales.
I’ve literally never used notifications on chrome except when the one time I made a virtual machine and tried to get as many viruses as possible
I wouldn't trust McAfee after the horrible life of John McAfee.
I mean that really doesn't make sense considering he left the company years ago
@@acasualmusiclistener7919 he literally left the world my dude
@@annaaffkhan Exactly, don't even want to talk about it.
@@annaaffkhan I don't think he died
@@fishyc43sar ok
Wow our school has McAfee pre-installed on their computers.
rip
BURN IT ALL DOWN
thats pain
I use Kaspersky and SuperAntiSpyware in combo on my system, both paid. McAfee and Avast did nothing but scare me with ads and refuse to block anything without premium payment.
I like Kaspersky in particular because of how many parts it covers on a 3-system license, more than what Malwarebytes would save on a 1-pc license.
I only use McAfee because it was built into my computer
But it doesn't give me annoying popups like this
Same, I use it to keep my computer safe
If you're on W10, you can kick his ass off your PC, truly
To the people in the replies, I don't care about having it
The Chrome ad with the Edge logo KILLED me.
Unfortunately my parents enjoy using McAfee and Norton and have forced me to install it on my laptop, even though I’m an adult, they ignore me and suggest I use McAfee or Norton to protect my computer, even though Norton goes off every time I log into an account because it’s like, ‘Oh your account is compromised’, it could be something that hasn’t even experienced a data breach and Norton would think I just compromised my own accounts by just logging into them, even when I change the password just to appease it and then log back in, it still stays that my account is ‘compromised’
that’s why you must move away, you can’t rely on people to not be terrible, even family can’t be trusted to full extent to not mess up, raising your child to be smarter than you doesn’t make you smarter
I sadly have Norton.. I know that its a scam but my father doesnt know that and is paying is it yearly to keep it running on our systems how do I tell him that its a scam?
Tell him and offer replacements like Malwarebytes and Kaspersky, I'm guessing he can make an educated choice
Move to Linux
@@jan_Kapije yeah and they fatherless too
@@gosth81 His father is probably not a tech savy person.
One of those somehow slipped into my device that is supposed to not allow those and guess what? It was the McAfee one. The popup was right where I was about to click and it OPENED UP A MALWARE FILLED WEBSITE.
Those notifications antivirus pop ups
Me, running a gradle build to download dependencies,
Norton:
*NO*
its just not norton, its just NO-ton
NOrton.
Best notification though of McAfee: Your PC isn't *Poretected* !
4:34
My dad discovered that McAfee on laptops is really impacting performance, and we NEVER installed it again. And Norton? It *was* good in 2000, but now now.
In my travels online I have NEVER received these kinds of overt notifications. Interesting and pathetic intrusions into user's computer experiences.
you know you've hit the jackpot when mcafee and norton team up for a even better UI.
AYOOO WHAT WAS THAT NOTIFICATION ON THE RIGHT??? 🤨💀6:58
Oh no
He actually clicked 😂
Malwarebytes is a decent antivirus. Though it’s getting more and more slow on my pc every year so what do I know
because your storage is getting used up more over the years, because of downloading shit that you like
It might just be Windows. I've found that it gums up after a while.
@@Cycles42 nah, I use external drives for anything important, and I have a little library of 7z archives when I haven’t played a game in a few months. Guess it might be unpacking it, but even just plain old mem checks are takin like 4 times as long
@@Dumb_Killjoy yeah, I disabled my telemetry recently and it suddenly stopped fucking up in yae about 3 ways so it’s probably just techies spyin on ya
Hey, since you were infected with a malware it might show you mcafee to make you believe you are paying for mcafee, but instead it will actually take all your payment details and drain money
How did you animate the intro. It looks pretty darn good! And also what type of music Genre is landscaping by windows96?
yes you right about the name song or idk
Vaporwave maybe
A 60 day free trial of Norton was on my MSI motherboard DVD with it's drivers, and it auto installs if you go for the express install. It's crazy
I got a pop up ad asking for my credit card to “confirm my credit card” for a “pc appstore” adware virus thing
I remember my aunts computer having Norton many years ago, and it was so slow. I got my own some time after, and it had Norton too. I removed it and it became much faster. :D
in a way, that would make it a virus
viruses slow down computers
@@GulibleKarma20 Minecraft rtx is a virus
@@LastStraightFlyinCataclysm yes yes yes yes yes yes
ikr
absolutely
@@GulibleKarma20 playing cyberpunk 2077 on an windows 95 is a virus
@@YeahhColix yes yes yes ikr
Not just that, whenever I literally open a new Chrome window in my school laptop, there is a McAfee popup showing these useless antivirus information for my computer.
I don't get why schools put this kind of trash, they are like when grandmas download a fake antivirus program without even realizing it. So this is why I use Malwarebytes and Avast only.
It comes with the laptop lol.
avast us a scam
avast sucks too, delete avast and use only malwarebytes
instant edit: and also use defender if ur on windows
@@kain8346 is*
Malwarebytes is a nagging shitty application from my experience but whatever works for you 🙂
Antivirus is not enough! You need Protegent™!
Lol
McAfee is a malware it doesnt harm your pc but it does annoy you with notifications
i like how the fake ransomware alert at 3:29 tells you "upgrade your antivirus to unlock your files" as if black hats would even outright tell you how to remove the malware that you installed
I'm still surprised how people still get virusses those days. I've been using Windows Defender for 4 years now without a single notification of some sus things going on my PC.
thats because Windows Defender is better then nothing.
@@SuperTroopey you mean than not then (then is like "then i did this" and than is "this is better than that")
@@xfys0 Do I care? I don't. my point still stands.
@@xfys0 🤓
@@SuperTroopey this has nothing to do with your point, i'm just saying that you made a grammatical error
also that's, not thats
Windows defender and good antiviruses be like: *notification* there are no threats in this usb
mcafee and norton be like:
how to delete big malware on ur pc
step 1. buy premium 999.99 per month
step 2: click on this totally not virus link
step 3: download this totally not virus exe
Bruh you know what's insane? My grandparents, mother, and father use and pay for Norton. I told my mom I uninstalled Norton one day, and she was appalled at the idea. She asked me why, and I told her it's bullshit and anyone with half a brain can just use windows defender.
Norton is good
Be chill and respectful to your mom. You will regret it.
"You were supposed to protect against the malicious software, not join them!"
My PC came with McAffe free for 1 month pre installed, It took me over an hour to start the PC the first time because I thought it froze because it constantly was loading on a black screen. it was the same after I installed the latest windows system updates to keep my PC up to date and it didn’t felt right. It was also the same if I just restarted my PC and it took sometimes half an hour to boot the system up. once my 1 month free subscription ended I just deleted McAfee from my PC and the computer changed completely in a good way. It felt like the program took some control over my system and it felt weird.
so if McAffee is now a scam, does that means windows security does all the work? I paid 2M IDR (139.82 USD) for the software and it's been included in my device since I bought it
edit: the subscription is still ongoing & I gonna pay another one in a few years, should I cancel the subscription or just make my money worth? 2 million is a lot tho
ask them to give back your money and then cancel subscription, mcafee sucked since release
Yeh don't pay for it install eset internet security it gets the job done honestly they give u a 30 day trial which If u don't like it then u can simply uninstall it
windows defender is as good as an irl window for keeping bad things out
I once got this on my laptop, when I wasn't experienced, and oh man, it was such a pain to get rid of.
You just explain how to remove it in a few minutes! I feel bad...
Very educational and informational.
But just one small problem… why is his name enderman when he didn’t make minecraft content? Just curious
Maybe the real trojans are the antivirus programs we installed along the way
1. Thanks for adding narration!
2. 5 am?! I can’t even record a video at 10!
McAfee is actually a bloatware which uses too much pc resources. I caused problem in my laptop as it was pre-installed. Right click menu won't appear for 2-3 minutes after clicking it for first time after bootup. Took me 2-3 days to figure that McAfee was the culprit.
I agree that they are scams since on my laptop they always popped up! But now in the future they don’t. Thanks for the explaining .
this is just affiliate.
Yeah not sure how he didn't understand that.
As someone with Norton I can confirm it’s a pain in the ass, they would repeatedly spam me with pop up’s and for no reason open a Microsoft edge tab to be their browser, I have chrome set as my default browser
just simply delete Norton.
the worst part is that my parents got mcafee on a gaming laptop and norton on a gaming pc
this aint good chief
**when you have a Samsung with built in McAfee**
😃🔫
Just root it and uninstall that shit
Havent watched the video yet, but I REALLY agree with the title. I am unfortunate that I have to use an HDD 6gb ram laptop with extremely slow speeds for anything I do, whether it be programming, gaming, or even browsing the web. Mccafee and all those other programs seem to be permanently active when I check the task manager when the laptop starts freezing up on simple tasks, and no matter how much I "End Task" the Mccafee processes, it does nothing or says "permission denied". And with my older desktop PC from around 2005, I get shockingly faster speeds than my much newer laptop, and it has no anti-virus other than the bare minimum Windows Defender software already built-in. I was led to believe it was these bad anti-virus apps and I was right, lol.
6:57 explain.
LOL
Idk how ppl get these mcafee ads I use mcafee and I've never had false ads that say I have a virus
i had a lot of trouble deleting mcafee of my new expensive computer.
Same can you please help me
Widnows defender is a solid antivirus, it does not have a flashy UI but gets the job done, has little performance on the system, has great detection for malware and is absolutley free with your copy of windows.
I don't see how a regular user could need something else besides windows defender and common sense.
It have flaws, like, eating your ram like candy bar all the freaking time, it's annoying, i want to be able to disable it permanently and reactivate it when i'm downloading stuff and all
it's really... well, boring to use
@@ZERARCHIVE2023 hmmmmm, for me never uses more than a GB of ram and you can easily disable it and enable it whenever you want for as long as you want lol
@@ZNEIC1 first. A GB of ram is a LOT. If a program takes so much up, it's useless bloat. If you disable it it will nag you for an eternity until either you turn it back on or it will turn on on its own. It's also really bad at detecting viruses but that's understandable since the only real putpose for that is to not let you activate your windows for free(the only files that it didn't even allow to stay on the hard drive were the activators)
@@shadesoftime your wrote so many things and you where wrong on all of them... Almost impressive to be honest.
@@ZNEIC1 or maybe you're a careless boy who just doesn't care to find that out. All of the stuff that I said was based on my long term experience with it
oh no, my pc is not poretected! i gotta get the virus porectection 4:34
7:01 sus😳
my pc came with McAfee i never got those pop up ads and it kinda did save me from from virus and links i clicked on now thats its expried can windows defender still protect me from viruses
Windows Defender is good enough unless you go to execute some sus exe on ur own free will.
Windows Defender would actively search for viruses on ur PC and delete them even.
My nan installed McAfee Security on my android tablet and several other “anti-virus” apps. One day, it said that McAfee was checking my location.
When antivirus becomes the virus
Well, for anyone not wanting these popups: Turn off notifications!
But then you also don't get email or message notifications
or better yet, use adblocks
And this is where I strongly recommend Malwarebytes, it's free and offers many things, like when one day I installed adware and spyware on a PC (which wasn't even mine lol), literally at that time Malwarebyte saved my ass from possibly the most savage reprimand I was going to receive in my life lmao
Malwarebytes isn't free
@@sh_gosha6867 it is
@@plane3251 it's not
@@sh_gosha6867 it literally is, premium is paid
@@plane3251 it's only free on demand scanner.
7:00 what did bro do 😭
You know a piece of software is absolute pile of trash if even the original creator(s) hates it after selling it to another corporation.
Linux users:
We dont need antivirus because there are not many viruses developed for linux
Well it depends, any actually good hacker would like linux users, because using linux = being a programmer = you have few private files that may interset the hacker.
@@septercat but they target grandmas and i don't even think 99% of my elders even know what linux is
@@septercatyou really think a user needs to be a programmer, hacker, or advanced computer user to use linux
No
Absolutely not
I in fact dont know much about how it works
But it has no ads, its free, fast, and easy to use
There's viruses for Linux but they're targeted at servers rather than desktops and laptops
Debian PFP
wait so the real norton isn’t fake right?
it's real, but it uses scummy practices to make people buy their antivirus
@@Endermanch hello what programming language do you recommend
@@Endermanch for softwares
@@Endermanch they want the most amount of people to be protected.
@@GelatekForever Python and Atom
I think one of the school computers has scam ads. I seen few times that some Antivirus on my PC says that there is Spring offer for 1 hour. But it is Fall, not Spring, so it is very sus.
One time i had a dream where my trusty malwarebytes became a discount mcafee (no window styling or anything)
I was scared because my greatest fear is my computer getting worst virus ever (im on mac)
I had no idea what McAfee was.
I looked it up on google when i woke up from fear.
John McAfee killed himself because he was unable to get rid of his own pop-ups
Idk wut to trust now only Microsoft Defender :(
actually the REAL norton/mcafee apps are real, not scams
its just that they use illegal practices to trick ppl to get their antivirus to make money so yes they are completely safe
@Zacharia Ahmad Their investors. And a few idiots because our world never had a lack of those
you are the best enderman but where is the ender dragon!!! 😂😂
The best antivirus is your common sense.
Most Twitter Users: *Hacked*
@@Cunny_Lord nah that brain big instead or at leat in this moment
I used Norton 365. Never gave me this type of notification
Because it never does. I’ve been using Norton for a while and it hasn’t caused me major trouble. Sure, Norton might not be the best antivirus, (which in theory it’s true ) only True claim that this dude stated is the fact that Norton takes up a good amount of your computers ram. Other than that, Norton should be safe. Also, those notifications were not even from the real websites. There’s something called scam, and this dude has probably never heard of it.
My dad installed McAfee on my 1500$ gaming laptop. Only thing is some annoying nonfications