New Update McAfee R136

[KnownStormChaser]

After three months, McAfee has finally released the new version R136.

Here are the translated changes:

The Neo engine upgrade is now separate from the main program version upgrade; even if the main program hasn't been updated to R136, the Neo engine has already been upgraded to the latest version.

The new version of the Neo engine adds a PDF parsing module.

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[Jonny Quest]

It still makes me scratch my head that a company founded in the US, doesn't have its own release notes site, and we have to find this information from a site in China?
I just got off a 15 minute Chat support session where they wanted me to log into my account to find that information. I gave them the link from above and mentioned by name (not every vendor) that BD, Kaspersky and F-Secure (sent him this link) have a designated site for build/release note information, but was given a link to log into my account, again. Edit: I gave them the F-Secure link, so they could see what it looked like, but maybe they just didn't understand?

Are the release notes somewhere in the McAfee portal, as I don't remember seeing them there?
And this link is fruitless.

Even F-Secure includes a direct link (blue Release notes) from within the app UI -> Support.

 

[Szellem]

It still makes me scratch my head that a company founded in the US, doesn't have its own release notes site, and we have to find this information from a site in China?
I just got off a 15 minute Chat support session where they wanted me to log into my account to find that information. I gave them the link from above and mentioned by name (not every vendor) that BD, Kaspersky and F-Secure (sent him this link) have a designated site for build/release note information, but was given a link to log into my account, again. Edit: I gave them the F-Secure link, so they could see what it looked like, but maybe they just didn't understand?

Are the release notes somewhere in the McAfee portal, as I don't remember seeing them there?
And this link is fruitless.

Even F-Secure includes a direct link (blue Release notes) from within the app UI -> Support.
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That's funny, actually. But seriously. I think these are basic things—users should know what changes or improvements have been made.
By the way, how's F-Secure working out for you?

 

[Jonny Quest]

That's funny, actually. But seriously. I think these are basic things—users should know what changes or improvements have been made.
By the way, how's F-Secure working out for you?

Very well. Great browsing and banking protection, stable (no glitches), very quite (no upsell notifications, ever). Perfect amount of settings for me, and all the protection I need for what I do, and don't do online, and what I download and don't download. Occasionally, on a app update (not Windows) the app can have a slow start-up, as F-Secure seems to be re-scanning it, making sure it's safe? Other than that, it's still my favorite

 

[Szellem]

Very well. Great browsing and banking protection, stable (no glitches), very quite (no upsell notifications, ever). Perfect amount of settings for me, and all the protection I need for what I do, and don't do online, and what I download and don't download. Occasionally, on a app update (not Windows) the app can have a slow start-up, as F-Secure seems to be re-scanning it, making sure it's safe? Other than that, it's still my favorite

Thanks for your reply. I'll give it another try sometime soon. My license is still valid for quite a while. I'll check out what they've come up with, and I'm also curious to see how it performs in @Sahdowra's test.

 

[Jonny Quest]

Thanks for your reply. I'll give it another try sometime soon. My license is still valid for quite a while. I'll check out what they've come up with, and I'm also curious to see how it performs in @Sahdowra's test.

I don't want to hijack this thread, but the newest beta has an encouraging update, that I wouldn't want Shadowra to test until it's had a few updates/fixes maybe around v26.5?

 

[Szellem]

I don't want to hijack this thread, but the newest beta has an encouraging update, that I wouldn't want Shadowra to test until it's had a few updates/fixes maybe around v26.5?

Let's continue in the F-Secure thread

 

[Sorrento]

Just had this screen shot (photo) from my sister-in-laws laptop that has McAfee on, it has 90 days left & IMO AV's do themselves no favours in using scare tactics such as these to get users to extend protection the box: 'Accept Risk' is not worthy of any security company when the license does not expire until July 05, I appreciate it's marketing which I feel is a glib phrase & IMO a get out for companies who know exactly what they are doing, it is phrased to worry people who feel they are at risk.

As it is I have a new two years license for her but she lives a hour away so I don't get over as often & I would like, and I need to install it for her & image the PC afterward as she is recently widowed she was genuinely worried enough to phone me this morning, not good enough McAfee or others who do the likes of.

 

[cartaphilus]

Just had this screen shot (photo) from my sister-in-laws laptop that has McAfee on, it has 90 days left & IMO AV's do themselves no favours in using scare tactics such as these to get users to extend protection the box: 'Accept Risk' is not worthy of any security company when the license does not expire until July 05, I appreciate it's marketing which I feel is a glib phrase & IMO a get out for companies who know exactly what they are doing, it is phrased to worry people who feel they are at risk.

As it is I have a new two years license for her but she lives a hour away so I don't get over as often & I would like, and I need to install it for her & image the PC afterward as she is recently widowed she was genuinely worried enough to phone me this morning, not good enough McAfee or others who do the likes of.

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Meh with a company that offers unlimited seat lic for $22/year. Kind of a steal.

 

[Sorrento]

I'm not sure if you looked at the message, the main message was 'Your virus protection is expiring', there is no information that that does not occur for 90 days (three months) Fair enough, but not to renew you have to tick a box that says I 'Accept Risk' in reality, as it does not expire for three months until July there is zero risk, for me I can live with that but for a 72 year old lady that looks like there is a risk today, in another two months tactics such as that would be acceptable, maybe.

I do have another McAfee license for her but there was in my view an implied risk today, not the cost of a license, I shan't comment on this again as its just my opinion others may disagree. - Almost all Av's can be bought for a pittance today, cost is not my point but implied risk today, the cost of renewing to her would have been £115 (UK Pounds) $154.76 (US Dollar) not a pittance, as it was she phoned me, when an anti-virus designed to prevent worry & issues to the uniformed causes worry, its wrong, I feel.

 

[Miraculix]

McAfee keeps attracting attention with its intrusive notifications. When will the people in charge at this company finally realize that they're driving customers away? I'm seriously considering switching to GDATA.

 

[Virtuoso]

I'm not sure if you looked at the message, the main message was 'Your virus protection is expiring', there is no information that that does not occur for 90 days (three months) Fair enough, but not to renew you have to tick a box that says I 'Accept Risk' in reality, as it does not expire for three months until July there is zero risk, for me I can live with that but for a 72 year old lady that looks like there is a risk today, in another two months tactics such as that would be acceptable, maybe.

I do have another McAfee license for her but there was in my view an implied risk today, not the cost of a license, I shan't comment on this again as its just my opinion others may disagree. - Almost all Av's can be bought for a pittance today, cost is not my point but implied risk today, the cost of renewing to her would have been £115 (UK Pounds) $154.76 (US Dollar) not a pittance, as it was she phoned me, when an anti-virus designed to prevent worry & issues to the uniformed causes worry, its wrong, I feel.

McAfee is not the right choice for this use case, even advanced AV users on this forum have uninstalled McAfee due to pop-ups and scareware. Windows Defender along with a security extension like bitdefender Traffic light and Ublock lite adblocker is a better combo for her.

 

[Sorrento]

Interestingly though I've had McAfee on 99% of the time from last July with not a single popup, maybe going to put G-Data on for her, I'll see..

 

[mlnevese]

AS with Avast the popups may be disabled in the settings if you don't want to see them

 

[Nightwalker]

I hate McAfee popups, my license is still good for 6 months, but will stay unused.

While Avast/AVG/Norton have a option to disable those marketing ads, McAfee doesn't have a setting to stop this, it is utterly annoying.

Example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mcafee/s/acRyl8YAbW (Btw, I got more unique ads compared to that user).

 

[Minimalist]

AS with Avast the popups may be disabled in the settings if you don't want to see them

Where can this be done in McAfee's settings? I don't see this option on my system.

 

[Trident]

Where can this be done in McAfee's settings? I don't see this option on my system.

I believe the notification setting only appears once you see certain notifications that have a gear on top and you can click “do not show again”.

Then, the setting appears and it most likely controls only these notifications.

 

[Sorrento]

Because of scareware which is the choice of McAfee, my choice is not to use McAfee again, & tell others - I don't care how good it is as an AV product, with me companies sometimes just get once chance

 

[oldschool]

McAfee is not the right choice for this use case, even advanced AV users on this forum have uninstalled McAfee due to pop-ups and scareware. Windows Defender along with a security extension like bitdefender Traffic light and Ublock lite adblocker is a better combo for her.

Indeed.

@Sorrento - Set it to High via ConfigureDefender and she'll never be bothered again.

 

[piquiteco]

Because of scareware which is the choice of McAfee, my choice is not to use McAfee again, & tell others - I don't care how good it is as an AV product, with me companies sometimes just get once chance

So, I’m the only lucky user of McAfee Total Protection who isn’t seeing those annoying pop-ups. It only popped up twice. Once was in the antivirus version, asking me to switch my search engine to Yahoo; I unchecked the box, clicked “Done,” and it never appeared again. The other pop-up was last week in the Total Protection version I’m currently using. It ran a scan and asked me to upgrade to clean up temporary files. I clicked and closed the pop-up, and it hasn’t appeared again so far. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a screenshot to post here on MT. I’m going to keep using McAfee until the license expires, even if these annoying pop-ups keep appearing. I don’t like it either—in fact, I hate this kind of marketing with these annoying pop-ups. I agree with all the members who use or have used McAfee and started getting bombarded with these annoying pop-ups, eventually abandoning the product. I've been using McAfee Total Protection for two months now—67 days, to be exact.