McAfee This Latest Version, is King of Speed for My PC...

[RodM1956]

I have always had a quest for a lite setup, and I decided to try McAfee this week, and was amazed.

 

[Dave Russo]

		AVC Score	PC Mark Score	Impact Score
1.	ESET	90	99.7	0.3
2.	K7	90	99.5	0.5
3.	VIPRE	90	99.4	0.6
4.	McAfee	90	99.2	0.8
5.	Tencent	90	98.7	1.3
6.	Total Defense	88	98.6	3.4
7.	Avast, AVG	85	98.8	6.2
8.	Symantec	85	98.6	6.4
9.	Panda	85	98.4	6.6
10.	Kaspersky Lab	83	99.1	7.9
11.	Bitdefender	83	98.7	8.3
12.	F-Secure	80	99.6	10.4
13.	Trend Micro	80	96.3	13.7
14.	Avira	75	98.9	16.1
15.	Microsoft	65	97.7	27.3

 

[Dave Russo]

Guess its no surprise McAfee is improved program ,does well @ AV comparatives.

 

[low L!fe]

I've been using McAfee for a 1 year and it does not slow down my device .
Intel Core i3 2th generation and 4GB RAM.

 

[alakazam]

I've been using McAfee for a 1 year and it does not slow down my device .
Intel Core i3 2th generation and 4GB RAM.

Which version?

 

[Pat MacKnife]

Guess its no surprise McAfee is improved program ,does well @ AV comparatives.

I'm running a 6 months license trial ( 2 months left) , and yes for me its also the fastest one i ever had on my computer, also with a very fast startup.

 

[Dave Russo]

The fast startup, is one reason I fell out of favor with Kaspersky,{thou its great} constantly dragged at computer start,now using Eset,which starts quick also

 

[RodM1956]

And web pages are "BAM"

 

[bribon77]

I'm glad to hear that McAfee has improved.

 

[RodM1956]

I'm glad to hear that McAfee has improved.

COOL

 

[low L!fe]

Which version?

McAfee Antivirus Plus 2019 (Windows 10 1809)

 

[Nestor]

I have always had a quest for a lite setup, and I decided to try McAfee this week, and was amazed.

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So do i,i am using Mcafee Internet Security about a month and it's the most lightweight AV(included most of the free's), except when i used only VS.The only downside is GUI ,take ages to open,other than that i am very happy

 

[Ludditus]

McAfee Antivirus Plus 2019 and Internet Security 2019 (both having a 6-mo trial if you know how to look for it) are tremendously improved over the previous versions (and their Android app also evolved from "complete junk" to "simply awesome"), BUUUT... McAfee deletes/quarantines without notifying, and there's nothing one can do about it!

• I download a keygen/patch/false positive, and the next second it's gone. I don't even know if it wasn't a dream. McAfee quarantines it, but there's no notification/pop-up/toast!
• I am making backups and copying some folders on an external HDD or in the cloud. In the process, every single file that looks suspicious to McAfee gets quarantined or deleted, and I don't even know that this happened! I am confident that I made a correct backup, and some files are missing!
• I insert a USB stick. Some files on it are deleted and McAfee doesn't tell me anything about it.

This is unacceptable and the reason I couldn't use the 6-month extended trials for McAfee Antivirus Plus 2019 and Internet Security 2019, despite the extreme lightness of McAfee 2019.
Of course, it can be worse. Stupid security software include:

• Sophos Home, which doesn't even have a quarantine.
• Trend Micro, whose quarantine preserves for 2 years the detected threats, and only removes from quarantine the restored and whitelisted files.
• F-Secure, who restores the hosts file to the almost empty one originally installed by Windows without notifying the user.

 

[roger_m]

@Ludditus Unfortunately, most antivirus software only has auto quarantine these days. McAfee would be fine for anyone who can live with auto quarantine. But the auto quarantine, means that I only use it on my test computer, even though I have a license for it.

 

[Ludditus]

Not really. Kaspersky, Avast/AVG and many others can be configured to ask before taking an action.

 

[roger_m]

Not really. Kaspersky, Avast/AVG and many others can be configured to ask before taking an action.

But just about all of them, don't let you whitelist a file when it is detected.

 

[Ludditus]

 

[roger_m]

@Ludditus I may be wrong, as it's been a while since I used AVG or Avast, but I think it will still auto quarantine some files. It's important to me to be prompted every single time a threat is detected and to have the option to whitelist it.

 

[Ludditus]

@roger_m I'm not sure they still do that. I've just go back to AVG Free after some years of not using either of Avast/AVG, and so far it always asked first if told so. In my experience, Panda and Bitdefender auto quarantine some files, no matter what they're told to do (i.e. configured to ask first).

 

[roger_m]

@Ludditus I guess I should try it again. I asked Avast a few years about prompting before quarantining and they said they wouldn't add it.

From memory, you can get Panda's real time protection to prompt you when it finds something, but when running scans, everything gets auto quarantined. However, it may be the other way round, as its been a while since I used Panda.