I loathe both. I've seen McAfee attack and destroy an essential security tool on my USB stick when I inserted it into someone else's computer while troubleshooting their problems. It gave me no warning, no chance to defend my own software.
Today I had a battle with the U3 demon that came close to resulting in a dirty shutdown. I couldn't believe what was happening! The utter insanity of the tedious, time-wasting, resource-hogging nonsense that went on as soon as my friend's Sandisk flash drive was inserted -- ugh. And the U3 uninstaller that I downloaded as soon as possible died trying. The combination of two idiocies, U3 and Microswat's default autoplay, had me turning the air blue.
108MB of garbage had to be deposited on the hard drive every time the thing was inserted! Portable Apps doesn't do that. Nor does it take control of everything away from the user. U3 stores everything in humanly-unreadable directories full of mystery-meat files. No sir, I want to know what's on my drives.
Today I had a battle with the U3 demon that came close to resulting in a dirty shutdown. I couldn't believe what was happening! The utter insanity of the tedious, time-wasting, resource-hogging nonsense that went on as soon as my friend's Sandisk flash drive was inserted -- ugh. And the U3 uninstaller that I downloaded as soon as possible died trying. The combination of two idiocies, U3 and Microswat's default autoplay, had me turning the air blue.
108MB of garbage had to be deposited on the hard drive every time the thing was inserted! Portable Apps doesn't do that. Nor does it take control of everything away from the user. U3 stores everything in humanly-unreadable directories full of mystery-meat files. No sir, I want to know what's on my drives.
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