Shaw Secure
 

Anyone here using it?

How does it compare to McAfee or Norton?

it's just a rebranded F-Secure, I'd say it's about the same as mcafee, but of course not as good as NOD.

It's like attaching a boat anchor to your car's bumper. It slows your computer to a crawl ...

its not very good

I have it installed so I can be entered to win a laptop :P
Few things I already noticed:
1. Starting up your computer loading up the system tray icons/applications take an enormous amount of time to load.
2. Freaking 16, yes, SIXTEEN processes are running if you "show processes from all users. It doesn't bother me as I have 4GB ram, but it may matter to some.
3. Applications take longer to load. i.e., Firefox and IE takes a few seconds longer to load. Dunno why it happens, but it does.

I've read detection rates are high. After all, they are using Kaspersky and two other engines.

As others have already stated, it's a resource hog....it works, but it's still a resource hog...

I've always wondered what the Windows Live One Care is like......

Live OneCare's protection is not great. Very resource-friendly, though. I was running it on my media PC because the Microsoft rep gave us free licenses and, about 2 weeks before the license expired, I started getting BSODs. This is a computer that literally just loops TV shows; I download the shows from another computer and send them to it over the network. I had 2 infections, but enough to fuck up the computer. I'm running Kaspersky on it again now (Kaspersky sent us some free licenses a couple months ago).

RUN, don't walk, away from Shaw Secure. I got the "install to be entered to win a laptop" thing too, so I decided, what the hey?

First, it uninstalled my Avast.

Then it started downloading updates... and the whole system became unresponsive. It was late, so I left it for the night... it was still going in the morning. (Shaw support said it shouldn't take more than 15 minutes - yeah, right).

It was fine for a couple days, but then I started getting popups that it had found a threat and wanted me to tell it what to do... well, it was finding some keyloggers and various other things I keep tucked away for testing, and the only options it would give me was to delete, clean, quarantine, or block the programs... NO option to simply leave it alone. Then I checked the logs and discovered it had already automatically removed, blocked or quarantined several portions of the applications and was only stopping to ask on parts it wasn't quite sure about.

So at that point I decided to uninstall it... the uninstall process started at about 6:30 last night.

Then I contacted the "online chat" Shaw support... they said if that didn't work, I could download an uninstall tool... I made sure that they noted my extreme dislike of the program on my account.

By 7:30 the uninstaller was still running and I had to go out, so I just left it running...

When I got home at 10:30, it was STILL going... at that point I tried to kill it to run the removal tool... and the system became very slow and stuttery.

I finally forced a reboot and went to bed.

This morning, I ran the uninstaller again... and the system became very slow until it finally rebooted itself. After that, it took a good 15+ minutes for all the system tray icons to come up.

So far, I haven't been able to find the files that it "quarantined" - it appears it deleted all its quarantined stuff when it uninstalled.

At this part I'm thinking I may have to rebuild my system from scratch, then send Shaw a bill for my time spent doing that and trying to replace everything that it removed.

If you really want to install this thing to win a laptop.... do it in a VM or on a machine you don't care about. Install it, get your entry in, then nuke it.