McAfee

In case anyone cares, those are called radio buttons.
- Aptly named because they are circles and therefore have a radius!
- Hmm, I always thought they were radial buttons.

john's probably rolling around in his grave right now, but it isn't because he's upset. he's just fucking the dead hookers down there
- The drugs are still working their way outta his system.
  
  fukushima, hold my pipe
- I highly recommend looking up the video where John McAfee explains how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus!
  
  dude, you gotta put the link in when you say stuff like that!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIaNZXgDtRU

I remember when McAfee first came out. They posted a free version to all the pirate sites everywhere and anywhere they could. Once everybody got hooked on it, cause it was actually somewhat good back then, they went to a pay model. Sleezy but effective.
- 1988 is long before 'pirate sites everywhere'. They might have done that at some point, but the product would have been around a decade old or more.
  Yeah software piracy has been a thing for a long time, but I don't think McAfee was going around dialing every BBS it could find just to spread the program, the users were happy to do that themselves.
  
  I remember all those years ago reading my first EULA for some software I bought. It mostly explained how the software company provided no reparation or responsibility for the software that they created and sold. It was then I decided I was gonna pirate if they were gonna be so sleazy.
  
  Mcafee came out in 87. I am almost 70 so it all blends together. I had an Apple BBS (The ASCII Exchange. Manuals only) then I switched to PC at some point. Guess it could have been BBS’s. I remember that people would stash pirated software on unsuspecting businesses computers default FTP etc. and post the address. What I can’t remember clearly (aphantasia) is which medium.
  
  It was a BBS back then. John McAfee wasn't known to be a raging psychotic douche then either.

My favorite part of this is that the single-choice circular option control is (or used to be) called a "radio button". I wonder what fraction of people today have any idea why it's called that. I guess we're lucky it's not called a "light switch button" since it's been 80+ years since light switches were like that.
Ask me about the "high beam switch" lol.
- High beam switch on the floor is superior to all other high beam arrangements. Got a '98 truck and have seriously considered putting it there, shouldn't be that hard to do.
- tell me about the high beam swirch please
  
  They used to refer to women with erect nipples appearing through their blouses as having their high beams on, because the old-style floor switch for the high beams was a little cylinder that resembled an erect nipple.
- Why call radio button
  What about high beamers
  
  Radio buttons are named after the physical buttons that were used on old radios to select preset stations.[3][2] When one of the buttons is pressed, the other buttons pop out while leaving the pressed one pushed in.
  From wiki

I will always despise McAfee. When I would get home from middle school and want to play Oblivion or the Sims 2, at some point, 15 minutes into every gaming session it would always pop up a Window and crash whichever game I was playing.
McAfee was just as much a danger to Kvatch as Mehrunes Dagon was.

The third option seems appropriate. After installing McAfee, my PC got infected by McAfee :P
- Not McAfee, but in the early 2000s I came home and found that Norton had decided that everything in C:\Windows was a virus.
  
  Well, it wasn't wrong.

Eh, I assume shit like this is made by some unpaid intern, not the main software developers. But yeah it still says something about their adherence to quality.
- This comment would have failed qa too, tbf
  
  lol, totally fair. And fixed. Typed too fast while walking out the door.

I don't think that anyone that works there to actually have a soul left, and to care about the radio buttons.

This is one of the many reasons why I dumped Windows and moved onto to Linux about ten years ago. I don't have that much money and back then I constantly budgeted what I had to pay for .... I wasn't going to spend hundreds on Windows, then hundreds more on subscriptions for things I could get for free in the Open Source Software realm where viruses and security were almost nonexistant. As soon as I dumped Windows, I no longer had to pay for the OS, the office suite, the image editor or the security software. I've saved so much money over the years.
- You never had to pay. It's not like they're gonna actually support you as a lowest level consumer, fuck em
  
  This was over ten years ago ... 15/20 years ago it was a real pain to try to get a copy of Windows and a key ... it was relatively easy to do if you lived in a big city (I used to deal with a computer guy in Hamilton, Ontario and he had memorized three Windows keys that he just kept reusing) ... the problem was in maintaining systems, updating them and in the changes, it kept messing with your setup and eventually triggering the system that it was an illegal key. Then you had to either disconnect from the internet, find a way around it or find a new key. I don't live near a big city and we didn't have easy access to the internet or forums or groups back then so it was frustrating to keep finding the latest ways to get a cracked copy, institution copy, company copy or hack to keep your system running. I don't work for a big company, don't have access to a school or institution so it was always difficult.
  I used to get so frustrated with it all that eventually it was just easier to buy a copy rather than do anything else. Saying all that, I think I only ever bought four Windows OS over the years anyway. And before I learned about Linux and Open Source software, I was the same as most unaware people and just bought the software titles I thought I needed .... plus the security software! ... I remember I maintained a copy of Norton Antivirus for years before I realized it was literally turning my system into molasses.
- Even nowadays if you don't play any games (most people actually), I get the same set of features with a $100 computer and Linux than a $1000 gaming beast on Windows 11 sold in specialized stores. People are fucked with that and they don't know it.
- I wasn’t going to spend hundreds on Windows
  I never had to pay for Windows. I have been using it since Windows for workgroups 3.11 came out in 1993.
- I usually just went into a lab at a school/college and took the key off the side of one of their desktops. Most schools would buy the machines and they would ship with windows licenses, then they would install their own Enterprise images with a sepetate license key. So if your license key wore off the bottom of a laptop, I'd steal one from there. If it was a Pro license, they worked to install up to Wim 10. I moved to Linux for most everything, but it's always nice to keep a key laying around in case I ever need it
  
  I got one off a bank computer in the drive through window.
- My laptop came with Windows (I could buy with Linux, but the price was the same), and can still run FOSS applications on it. I use GIMP, Inkscape, QGIS, and more.
  In 40 years of using a PC I've never paid for security software.
  I do still have Adobe products for when I need them though, because when it comes down to it they really do have the best image editing software by a very significant margin.
- Probably best you switched to something different, seeing how you had no idea how to use Windows.