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 AWFUL- ANNOYING and INVASIVE!, 2008-08-02
The marketing strategy used for the McAfee software that came with my Dell Laptop was to annoy the user constantly and permanently PUSHING AND PUSHING for you to HAVE TO BUY THEIR SUBSCRIPTION. I got popups, emails everyday saying that Ïts my last chance to get it at discounted prices, and so forth. I HATED SO MUCH THEIR ANNOYING PUSHY MARKETING (I found it UNCOMFORTABLY INVASIVE). Instead of motivating me to buy from them I prefered to get NORTON 360 from Symantec. I gladly payed that subscription- and I was so happy when I read "Before installing Norton 360 you must remove the following program: McAffee !"
It's like a war Tax. Either you pay McCafee or you will be bugged for the rest of your life until you do. Talk about a Virus-Like behavior.!
There are tons of better options than this.
 So far it seems to work ok, 2008-07-30
but in all honesty, I really don't feel that it does anything greater than Norton. I didn't have a problem w/customer service as some have mentioned but I did notice a bit of slowing in speed of while surfing occasionally.
 Seems to be working at least as well as its competitor on my machines, 2008-07-20
Installation. If you have Vista, the CD requires that you download the software; for other platforms, you can choose installation by CD or download. I have installed it to XP computers using the download version. I would welcome full CD-based installation for all platforms since that's what I would do for a computer that I suspected was infected.
After the full download, the installer checks for incompatible programs, which you must uninstall before continuing. Most of these, such as rival virus software, will require rebooting in the middle of the McAfee installation. This worked but it seems inefficient to me: why not run a software check before downloading the full program?
Operation. Boot time with this software is quicker than the rival program I had been using. This differs from the experience of some other users who have reviewed the product.
I've been using it for about a month, and I have no evidence of viruses or spyware, so it seems to work. I didn't test it by trying to infect it. I use Firefox as my browser and web-based email through a university with a very good spam filter built in, so my exposure is different than, say, a Hotmail+Internet Explorer user.
 Good Protection, 2008-07-17
It's hard to review security software, since when it does its job you (ideally) don't notice it. I have had no problems using McAfee Total Protection on my Windows Vista computer, and that's all I can really ask of it. It was easy to install, it's easy to use, and it hasn't caused my computer to crash so far.
Where, oh where?, 2008-07-17
Sheesh, comes time to review and you still can't find the installation diskette!
Will update review after I've had some time with the product ...
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