> when having McAffe antivirus was worse than having an actual virus because it slowed down your computer to much
This exact same thing continues in 2025 with Windows Defender. The cheaper Windows Server VMs in the various cloud providers are practically unusable until you disable it.
You can tell this stuff is no longer about protecting users or property when there are no meaningful workarounds or exceptions offered anymore. You must use defender (or Cloudflare) unless you intend to be a naughty pirate user.
I think half of this stuff is simply an elaborate power trip. Human egos are fairly predictable machines in aggregate.
This exact same thing continues in 2025 with Windows Defender. The cheaper Windows Server VMs in the various cloud providers are practically unusable until you disable it.
You can tell this stuff is no longer about protecting users or property when there are no meaningful workarounds or exceptions offered anymore. You must use defender (or Cloudflare) unless you intend to be a naughty pirate user.
I think half of this stuff is simply an elaborate power trip. Human egos are fairly predictable machines in aggregate.