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 enlarge | From: McAfee
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £19.98
You Save: £30.01 (60%)
New (2) Used (1) from £15.41
Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 77
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 731944568782
EAN: 0731944568782
ASIN: B000TUSY1I
Release Date: October 8, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 OK but Mcafee tech team are useless and unhelpful. Siteadvisor pretty useless. September 9, 2008
Mcafee is ok but could be a whole lot better.
My computer is still running at a good speed but the siteadvisor is pretty useless as it keeps stopping and highlighting previous safe sites like 'google' and 'bbc' as dangerous (red) or unchecked (grey).
I do not trust the siteadvisor 100&, there are some strange sites that Mcafee has green ticked like a site which is suppose to show short clips and information on American programmes like 'Prison break' but when you click on the site there's hardcore porn on the home page.
I emailed Mcafee and they responded quickly saying they scan sites for spyware, adware and viruses not pornographic material.
My mcafee says a particular gaming site is safe (green tick) but my friends Mcafee says the site is dangerous (red cross)
I've had to uninstall and reinstall Mcafee internet security suite 3 times in 6 weeks as the siteadvisor shuts down and the first week i switched on broadband i got a malicious virus and was told that the wrong sec suite had been sent to me by SKY Broadband.
McAfee's technical support is AWFUL. You can only contact them during office hours on the phone or you can connect live to tech support who are just as useless. I phoned them 3 times in 2 days and the 1st time they cut my call off, I guess because they couldnt answer my question.
They keep apologising instead of answering my questions or helping me.
I clearly told them that I was having trouble downloading siteadvisor and i wasted 20 minutes on the internet with a tech rep who told me to install another security suite and then realised that i already had a suite (which i told her at the beginning of the call). In the end i had to uninstall my security suite and reinstall it.
There are advance features which can improve the security of your PC but unfortunately there is no manual to help you understand it and the Mcafee tech team have no clue. All the tech team are good for is incouraging you to spend more money by upgrading your siteadvisor or sec suite.
Once you have Mcafee you cannot use it with any other malware, spyware and adware removal programs. I was hoping to download Spybot but Mcafee, Sky and even Microsoft said Mcafee is a stand alone security program which shuts down when it detects a "rival" program. A couple forums on the internet confirm that.
When you install Mcafee Windows Defender and Firewall turn off.
If you uninstall Mcafee, which is easier than removing Norton (which came pre-installed on my pc) windows defender and firewall switch on automatically.
I've noticed that the scheduled scan does not scan on time so i run manual scans, along with microsoft windows malicious software removal tool.
I've heard there are better FREE security suites out there such as 'Avast'. I've heard that 'Kaspersky' is excellent.
I will keep Mcafee until i can find something better.
All in all Mcafee comes free with sky or you can buy it on Amazon for a reasonable price. It's a pretty good security suite but there must be better ones on the market.
The customer service lets Mcafee down greatly.
Does what it says on the tin, but oh so slow August 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A bog standard internet security suite that so far shows few chinks in its armoury of defences. What I will say, however, is that it slows down the PC it is used on far more than the old version of Norton that it replaced. Maybe this is down to the machine it is on and its fairly low-spec (it is only 3 years old), but its performance has deteriorated considerably since its installation.
 User-friendly, accessible and a good safeguard August 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product is very easy to install and set up. I think my computer is running faster and more smoothly as a result. My one gripe would be occasionally that it refuses to update and gives me no reason, but this is probably more a user problem than a software one! All in all I feel much more secure now I am protected by the security suite and I didn't need to be a geek to install it either! Which is a bonus.
 Good Old McAfee August 8, 2008
The fourth edition of McAfee that I have installed. Installation a bit long winded but no problems otherwise.
Buy it ! July 28, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having been using norton I/s since 2005 I got fed up with my xp laptop crashing with the lastest norton I/S 2008.
So I decided time for a change and brought the mcafee I/S 2008.
I downloaded the removal tool from nortons web site and made sure everything had been removed.
Installed the mcafee from the cd supplied no problems at all. did have slight problem getting the product registered but I think that was a web site problem. But contacted web support the responded the next day as it was a weekend but bye then the problem had been fixed.
Have been using for a couple of weeks now with excellent results computer much faster and have gained 2gb memory back having unistalled norton.
Live update runs without even slowing the computer.
Wish I had changed years ago. Never buy norton.
Buy Mcafee a great easy to use and install product with excellent aftersales.
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