Crap AV for Crap ISP

Sounds like a good match. AOL doesn't need explanation on why it's bad; its badness is known as much as Microsoft for 'quality' software.

Now McAffee ... well, back in '94 I bought the thing because back then, my XTreePro Viruscan was not able to eliminate the NATAS virus (though it did detect it, a major feat for a 5 y/o un-updated AV). McAffee did kill it .. .but only because it was up to date.

Then 2 days later, I made a floppy disk and took it to school to kill the virii there. Guess what? My McAffee went down in flames, courtesy of ... DIR II. Yes, a 7+ year old virus was apparently better than my great AV.

I switched to Norton Antivirus shortly after that, and basically stayed there until switching to Panda recently.

Now that may be my own experience, but my high school had lots of virii on their PC's, and they used McAffee. The problem went away when they switched to Symantec corporate.