McAfee Total Protection 2008 - 3 User [OLD VERSION]

This is an excellent, user friendly product with a good reputation among the McAfee users I've spoken to. I had no problems installing it, & haven't experienced any problems with it at all since installing it.

If you're looking 2 protect your PC or laptop from hackers, viruses, spyware, email & phishing scams, & want 2 secure your identity when your online, you can't go wrong with this product.

Reasonably priced & a good value 4 the cost.

i have a computer that is less than one year old. i used the mcafee 'quick clean' that they offer in the software 2 make the computer run more efficiently. it totally messed up my computer. my email doesn't work now, i can't do a restore (it erased everything up 2 that point), & my speakers, & printer don't work. i called them 2 help (some guy in india who i couldn't understand), & they could not fix the problems. when i asked them how they were going 2 reimburse me 4 my efforts/inconvenience, the guy stuttered, & advised me 2 call dell. very irresponsible. avast is a free virus software that i should have used, but this mcafee came with my new software. never again...
good luck.

They should have paid me 4 what it has done 2 my new notebook. It's like the protection works against the operating system. It now takes my computer 20 minutes 2 boot up. Uninstalling the program as I type. What a waste of money....

I want 2 first say that anyone who is NOT running anti-virus software should really get some - any - antivirus software on their systems immediately. It's not only about losing your own data. It's about your system being turned into a robot 2 send out millions of spam messages a day. If your system is open & unprotected, it in essence can be taken over by anyone on the web. This could turn you into a porn system, a spam system, or many other kinds of illegal systems without you ever knowing. You really need 2 keep your system locked 4 your safety as well as the safety of others. Never mind your legal implications if you let your unprotected system become a storehouse of child porn. ("Really officer, I had no idea ...")

McAfee & Norton are traditionally two of the big names in the PC protection world. We have used both on & off over the years. Recently we have given the edge 2 Norton 4 their anti-virus software abilities. You only need one virus 2 hit you 2 wipe out your data & 2 turn your machine into a porn-distributing robot. When we had the opportunity 2 try McAfee, we thought we might as well see how it was doing.

The first thing I have 2 say is you CANNOT review an antivirus software package after only a week of us!! That is not a valid test. You need 2 use it 4 months 2 see how it actually performs. This is a long term software package, not one that works 4 a week & tells you much of anything. That is like buying a retirement stock portfolio & judging it after a week's worth of time.

So we've had this 4 several months now. Issue 1. It really slows down your system. Far more than other systems do. Since most of us use our computers 4 things that we do not want 2 wait 8 hours 2 complete, a slow system is not a good thing. There is no reason 4 the system 2 crawl the way it does when McAfee is running.

Even more importantly though it does NOT provide reliable virus protection. I might even accept a slower system if I knew it was being properly protected. However, it is not! The system that was running McAfee on it got hit with a virus that Norton blocked on our other systems. That right there is the ultimate failure mark. If you are running anti-virus software on a system, & it gets a virus anyway that damages data, just what was the purpose of the slow anti-viral software? Especially when other software at the same price did its job properly.

We haven't tried yet, but we've also heard that this software auto-bills yearly without asking your permission & that canceling the software is a royal pain in the butt. That is the death knell as far as we are concerned.

Buy Norton. Stay away from McAfee, at least this 2008 version.

I HATE THIS PROGRAM. Everyday there is something it does 2 waste my time. The most annoying ritual is I have 2 activate it several times a day. When I missed doing so, I had 2 re-install the program (downloading & installation - about 90 minutes). Several times a month the automatic update causes errors, at the least I have 2 stop everything & re-boot several time, or more often than not, the program informs me I have 2 re-install ... again. It doesn't work in the background either, whenever it decides 2 do something, (scan, download, update the program). Everything I'm doing crawls 2 a halt. No warning either, if I am doing something that needs the processor or the internet... too bad. (The only thing you can stop is the scan, if you look 4 the hidden icon, but by then it is too late.) If you try 2 change the settings (if you can find them) it announces you are unprotected all the time. Finally, they send you a butt load of ads that pop up on your desktop & you have 2 click the button "continue with what I am doing"

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