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Hmm...I have version R133.152.1, but I can't find a way to enable fraud detection. Or is the EU "protecting" me from a potential protection option again?
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On pc I don’t see this option
Normally when you look at these tiles like VPN and so on, Scam Detection is the first option.
In addition, you can check the online portal, protection.mcafee.com
If it is not there, either it’s not part of the license, or not supported in this region yet. I would be very surprised to find out it is not supported in Germany and yeah, could be some EU regulations yet again.
In addition, you can check the online portal, protection.mcafee.com
If it is not there, either it’s not part of the license, or not supported in this region yet. I would be very surprised to find out it is not supported in Germany and yeah, could be some EU regulations yet again.
Logic; it is a very new feature and must be supporting a limited number of languages at the start, and might not be availabe for all regions, considering the Chinese user will mainly require to detect scam of email messages in Chinese, not in English.
They only support text message detection scams it seems.
Is this all, no need to enable ?
That’s for the mobile security only.
One of the reasons we're recommending McAfee now is that they no longer flood users with upgrade prompts or extra feature ads. This approach feels fresh (or maybe just new to me), and it's quite interesting. I really hope they stick with it and don't bring back those ad notifications or scare tactics.
@Trident
In your original post you've posted that it took McAfee less than 10 minutes to preform full scan.
Do you have any large files on your system? Files like VHD files from virtual machines, system backup files, large video files?
I'm, just running full scan on my system after over 6 hours it's only at 43%. So I expect it to be well over 12 hours before the scan is finished.
When I used resource monitor to check what data is beeing scanned I noticed that it also scans all large file like Macrium backup files, virtual machines storage files.
For instance: it was scanning 80 GB VHD file for one of my virtual machines for almost an hour, during which time it was using 20+ GB of RAM and CPU 10-90+ %.
That's probably the most aggressive scan from any AV solution I've encountered so far.
In your original post you've posted that it took McAfee less than 10 minutes to preform full scan.
Do you have any large files on your system? Files like VHD files from virtual machines, system backup files, large video files?
I'm, just running full scan on my system after over 6 hours it's only at 43%. So I expect it to be well over 12 hours before the scan is finished.
When I used resource monitor to check what data is beeing scanned I noticed that it also scans all large file like Macrium backup files, virtual machines storage files.
For instance: it was scanning 80 GB VHD file for one of my virtual machines for almost an hour, during which time it was using 20+ GB of RAM and CPU 10-90+ %.
That's probably the most aggressive scan from any AV solution I've encountered so far.
That's what it looks like for me
This situation varies depending on which store the product was purchased from or which region it is used in.
No, I don’t have any large files. I noticed McAfee takes long when it has to scan installers, composite files and all that. I don’t keep any of these on my systems, I download, install and then delete. I still have a fair share of installed software.
Yes it seems that it opens up and scans a lot of files and even some filetypes that other AV solutions skip.
It took McAfee good 8 hours to finish scan of my system. During the scan it moved some files to quarntine including an ISO file with Windows installation image and before mentioned 80 GB VHD file from one of the virtual machines. Detection for that file and another snapshot was Trojan:Script/SuspiciousPowershell.K!2.
It's good that I could restore all of them from quarantine. And luckily I had enough free space on C: so it could move such big file to quarantine. IDK what would happen if C: would get full.
It seems that running full scan is just too "dangerous" for my system
@Minimalist after running a full scan (or any scan), McAfee maintains 2 types of caches, low and high. The high cache appears to be cleared weekly, the low one seems to be forever.
There is no reason to do full scans anymore.
I suggest also you add exclusions for these folders where you have these large files.
There is no reason to do full scans anymore.
I suggest also you add exclusions for these folders where you have these large files.
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Pre-activated Windows ISO?
Any option in settings to limit the size of the files transferred to quarantine?
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After my first attempt, I decided not to run a full scan on my computers. I don't want flames shooting out of my PC. 
If you are scanning newly downloaded files, you need only quick scan, either weekly or daily if paranoid.After my first attempt, I decided not to run a full scan on my computers. I don't want flames shooting out of my PC.
Thank you for that info.
As I see only individual files can be added to exclusion list and not whole folders. It would be too much work to add all those files one by one to that list.
Nope. It was virtual machine with restored image of my live system, so I don't know what it found since it didn't find anything on my system.
It doesn't have much settings at all and no size limit setting for scanning or moving to quarantine.
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