Downloading security suite

Give up! McAfee is worthless crap and is not needed on a Mac. All it will do is cause you to have problems with your MAC.

No.

It is not just a valid option, it is a "Smart" option to NOT install any Anti-Malware product on your Mac.

The forum spends a lot of time diagnosing slow Macs and kernel panics because users try to treat their Macs like a Windows PC.

Anti-Malware, Mac cleaners, memory cleaners are all the rage, and then the owners complain of kernel panics, and slow Macs. We tell them to remove those things and most of the time they go away happy that their Macs behave themselves again.

The following URLs provide information on why you do not want an Anti-Malware product:

TheSafeMac.com

<http://www.thesafemac.com>

How does Mac OS X protect me?

<http://www.thesafemac.com/mmg-builtin/>

Mac Malware Guide

<http://www.thesafemac.com/mmg/>

Please download and install EtreCheck from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck

Run it and post the report here.

Maybe after analyzing the report we might be able to give you a hint.

...than whats a better alternative to the anti-virus...

Mac OS X is a better anti-virus package.

How does Mac OS X protect me?

<http://www.thesafemac.com/mmg-builtin/>

Perhaps AT&T has a problem at their end.

Have you tried another web browser? Firefox, Chrome, OmniWeb, curl -O from a Terminal session?

Allan Eckert suggested posting the EtreCheck output so we could see what else you have installed to see if maybe some 3rd party addition might block the download?

A number of things many of which will be revealed by the EtreCheck report, so rather then guessing I'll just wait until you decided to post it.

AlexLuquezfromtucson wrote:

Alright awesome info! But none the less I still wanna know what would stop me from downloading the program.

The fact that McAfee doesn't know what the **** they're doing?

The fact that AT$T doesn't know either?

Common sense?

If you want to download something that is not available from the Mac App Store, download it from a site specifically authorized by the software's developer. No other source should be trusted, especially if it's one recommended by AT$T.

This is the site I found after a brief search: http://www.att.net/iss. You have to log in to get beyond that, and having established sufficient distance between my life and AT&T's monumental incompetence there's only so much I am willing to do for my fellow Mac users. If it's still not working for you after you log in with your credentials, I'd take it as a sign of what you could expect once you install it.

Retain both of the following links to prepare for that:

How to install or uninstall McAfee Internet Security for Mac

How to uninstall and reinstall McAfee Agent 4.x on Macintosh computers