Software Review McAfee Protection (Plus Plans, Total Protection, LiveSafe)

[ForgottenSeer 116559]

I ended my trial period by snatching up an unbeatable deal on a full license. You could easily spend more on a single run to Starbucks.

McAfee will be running comfortably on my end for the foreseeable future.

 

[superleeds27]

Think I'll pick up a cheap licence and give it a go on the laptop.

See what I think

 

[superleeds27]

Do you need the web advisor extension for it all to function correctly? Or does it still work as well without it?

 

[superleeds27]

Okay. So it's installed on the laptop.

The licence I got from Eneba ended up being 10 devices for 15 months at £4.71, bonus!

Seems okay. Will see how often the popups appear telling me about extra features, that'll become annoying, quickly!

Full scan on the go. Quick scan was done in a few minutes.

Web advisor extension installed. I'd be hard pushed to say if there's any difference in browsing speed between it and Kaspersky, there probably is, but without properly testing that somehow, it'd be hard to say.

The laptop is rarely used tbh, odd but if browsing and mainly games on steam.

 

[Parkinsond]

Do you need the web advisor extension for it all to function correctly? Or does it still work as well without it?

Disable the extension
Visit: Feature Settings Check - Phishing Page Test - AMTSO
Launch the test; if detected, then there is no need for the extension; if not, you have to use the extension.

 

[simmerskool]

Do you need the web advisor extension for it all to function correctly? Or does it still work as well without it?

at initial run of firefox I declined to install the McAfee ext and now I cannot get it to install into firefox. I think the solution is to reinstall firefox. (fwiw)

 

[Trident]

at initial run of firefox I declined to install the McAfee ext and now I cannot get it to install into firefox. I think the solution is to reinstall firefox. (fwiw)

Maybe both McAfee and FF

 

[simmerskool]

Maybe both McAfee and FF

maybe, but no indication that McAfee is not working properly in the VM, eg, Edge seems fine with the McAfee extension. IMO easier to remove & reinstall firefox than any AV.

 

[superleeds27]

It's actually showing it as unlimited devices, not 10?

Strange.

Full scan seems to be taking a while!

 

[nickstar1]

It's actually showing it as unlimited devices, not 10?

Strange.

Full scan seems to be taking a while!

You're first full scan will take awhile but after that it should be faster as McAfee gathers safe files.

 

[superleeds27]

You're first full scan will take awhile but after that it should be faster as McAfee gathers safe files.

Thought that might be the case.

Those popups are starting to irritate me already. I know the scam detector service is there and not enabled, I don't want to enable it! Stop asking me

 

[Sorrento]

Where do you get the popups???

 

[Trident]

Where do you get the popups???

I didn’t get any either

 

[Sorrento]

I don't think I have had any???

 

[nickstar1]

I didn’t get any either

I think he may be talking about the GUI when you open it it kinda does advertise it aggressively but not in pop ups.

 

[simmerskool]

Thought that might be the case.

Those popups are starting to irritate me already. I know the scam detector service is there and not enabled, I don't want to enable it! Stop asking me

for me, the annoying popups stopped a day or 2 after it was installed

 

[simmerskool]

I didn’t get any either

for the first day or 2 after install, I got popups in lower right probably because I did not activate everything during install, but then they stopped...

 

[simmerskool]

I think he may be talking about the GUI when you open it it kinda does advertise it aggressively but not in pop ups.

no -- I got popup windows in the lower right of desktop, but they stopped after a day or 2...

 

[Trident]

For me, all features were setup even before I install McAfee so there were no popups.

 

[superleeds27]

Yep. That's what I'm getting too. Bottom right hand corner, they seem to be in within the app. If I minimise the app, they minimise too

for the first day or 2 after install, I got popups in lower right probably because I did not activate everything during install, but then they stopped...