Thanks, ramy for the title fix. Typing too fast again.
I'd love to comment on this but it would move us into the subject of politics and that is forbidden so lets just stick to the debate on technicals, OK?
I have McAfee on my Dell laptop and it seems to run fine. Never had a virus on it. The only antivirus software I ever tried that slowed my computer to a crawl was Norton. Mostly I use AVG, both free on the lesser used computers and the full paid suite for my main surfing computer. It's OK but I have had some trouble with spyware and other trojans over the years. AVG isn't perfect and my latest gripe with it is the Yahoo toolbar and Search engine takeover.
I'm actually excited about having the antivirus software on the chip level. Hopefully that will solve the virus from taking over your OS and browser. My question is more in the line of subscriptions. Do you all think Intel is planning to offer the daily updates to the hardware virus lists through a paid subscription service? I haven't heard any additional reports on the how of this move, only that they plan to do the hardware approach. Also, what about AMD? If Intel does this, AMD will have to compete. Who will they buy?
Personally, I just bought back into AMD because their stock is at bargain lows now. I also have some Intel in my retirement account. I think both of these companies are pretty solid but they do seem to follow each other's lead.