Preloaded Anti-virus sucks

and so do the vendors who push it!

from JoeUser Forums

Arrgh. Having just dealt with yet another PC which had a preloaded 90-day trial AV when they bought it - three years ago -, I had to vent. DELL, HP/COMPAQ, SONY, pretty much everybody who does this, I hate you. You both suck and blow. Like Megamaid. Go watch SpaceBalls. :)

I doubt that 3 in 10 people actually go buy the AV package (assuming they understand that the need to in the first place) and the response is almost always the same: "Yeah, I have a virus program", (I bite my tongue on the obvious response...). 

*sigh* I guess it keeps the shops busy, but I still occasionally ponder if perhaps the conspiracy theorists aren't right and the AV vendors do some moonlighting as virus writers.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

PC manufacturers often strike deals for software which requires them to pre-load software. I hate it too, I wiped my PC when I got it and clean installed XP, but it's the way things are.

 

And what's wrong with SpaceBalls? Maybe the power of the Schwartz was a bit weak but it was worth it for the Barf gag...

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

There are some companies that do premades without frontloading it with junk. ibuypower, for example, does a barebones OS installation, plus any software that comes with your devices (like they would install the dvd player/decoder software for your blu ray drive). Anything else you have to ask them to install when you're putting together your system.

It's just a shame the more mainstream companies put all that crap on there :P

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sir we can't continue with radar......we've just been jammed.....hmmmm.......raspberry.....Lonestar!!!

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Ya. when I got my old dell pc. I found that it had mcafee, one of the ram hogging anti out there. So I reinstalled Windows wiped everything clean, now I got even better one. One that is better in value and one that doens't use that much ram

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Fuzzy, reply 1
PC manufacturers often strike deals for software which requires them to pre-load software. I hate it too, I wiped my PC when I got it and clean installed XP, but it's the way things are.
 
And what's wrong with SpaceBalls? Maybe the power of the Schwartz was a bit weak but it was worth it for the Barf gag...

It isn't actually the pre-installed AV that bothers me, it's the fact that it is (usually) only a 90-day license and often the buyer thinks, "Oh, it came with anti-virus so I'm ok" and never go any further.

And SpaceBalls is an AWESOME movie. :) "So what does that make us? Absolutely nothing!!! BWAHAHA HAHAHA".

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Pizza the hut: Barf, Puke.... what's the difference!!!