Here is a classic example of extorting money from web businesses, hold onto your seats folks.  http://mcafeesecure.com/ms/?p=9

Edited to add this link http://mcafeesecure.com/us/merchants-benefits.jsp

You're telling me!!!

I decided to look into it, just for the grin and I wish i hadn't bothered. The guy is never off the phone. He started offering me the package at $27,000 but Ive managed to get him down to $2700 a year instead.

And it's all salesmen, no techies. So a guy who knows nothing about anything to do with the product is trying to tell me that without it I'll be hacked out of business within seconds.

Yeah, whatever, its insured.

its all the hard sell too, which i detest.
" if you don't buy it now, I'll go to your competitors and they'll have it"
Good, sell them your tacky crap, thats 27 grand they cant spend on advertising to my customers. Do you want their numbers?

And the best sell he came up with was when Id got him down to $7500 a year
"You say you average 100,000 unique page views a day!,  so you'll be getting our delux package for $7500 and using 48,000 page views a day"

er.......... 48 goes into 100 how many times?

I'm not going to buy it, just on principle. Being British, I can't be petrified into spending my money. Fear does not open my wallet.
Yorkshireman too, so the hard sell just pisses me off into wanting to tell everyone not to buy that crap.

What do you get for 27g?
A robot scanning the ports on your server, a Scriptkiddie trying XSS on your site once a day, and a tacky javascript to post on your site that logs everything it can about your visitors.
McAfees a nightmare in the affiliate game anyway. bollox to em. I'm pretty confident that no-one can get into our sites and do any damage. The data is all stored encrypted and backed up everynight. That's all free.

Now if it was still scanalert, a name I already trust, I'd have probably bought it.

I was doing some further research on this and from what I can tell surfers will only see the trust seal if they are in “Protected Mode”. I don’t own a Vista OS but it is my understanding that the “Protected Mode” is only an option if you have Vista with IE7. So here is a question, is IE7 “Protected Mode” set to On by default?

I called McAfee today and got the real story on how this works. What they don’t tell you is that the only people that will see the trust mark in the SERPS are the people that have installed the McAfee SiteAdvisor toolbar. So again if it smells like rotten fish it probably is.

In regards to IE7’s Protected Mode – It appears that it is the default mode http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/09/528963.aspx

That whole Hacker Safe company is a crock. They don't offer anything of REAL value, BUT.... they WILL spend forever and a day on the phone with you, trying to take every penny you can muster up.

The AVG 8 internet security package on the other hand will scan all the search links to tell the consumer what they deem safe with no buy in required from the merchant.