App Review MCAFEE Total Protection 2019

[stefanos]

Content source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nz5IHbdxJ8

Google translate
McAfee is an antivirus company located in the United States. In the past, McAfee was the laughingstock of antivirus because it was not popular at all, slow and very bad. Since its purchase by Intel, it seems that the deal to change. McAfee returns in 2019 with a fairly simple interface. Already operational at launch, McAfee has been quite effective on our test events. But, some inconsistencies. McAfee has web protection named Web Advisor, but no alerts during the entire test. Best of all, McAfee will not flinch until the user tries to run the file! And its other modules are in withdrawal. No reaction from the firewall, let alone proactive defenses, our homemade malware completes the test of great beauty. Note also that the software is not very responsive, and quite heavy ... McAfee is good in detection, but we deco

 

[spaceoctopus]

Good performance from McAfee. But test seems to be slightly flawed, as to block malicious urls, McAfee Webadvisor should be installed. Browser seems to be firefox, perhaps the test was done at the time Firefox had that serious problem with extensions.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[Nestor]

Good performance from McAfee. But test seems to be slightly flawed, as to block malicious urls, McAfee Webadvisor should be installed. Browser seems to be firefox, perhaps the test was done at the time Firefox had that serious problem with extensions.
Thanks for sharing!

You have to manually download Mcafee web extension (working only if you installed Mcafee) which is very effective,but in this video this doesn't happen.

 

[spaceoctopus]

You have to manually download Mcafee web extension (working only if you installed Mcafee) which is very effective,but in this video this doesn't happen.

Perhaps a bug or that issue with Firefox extension. Usually when you install Mcafee products it installs automatically. Once you open your browser, you just have to confirm its installation in the browser.

 

[Nestor]

Perhaps a bug or that issue with Firefox extension. Usually when you install Mcafee products it installs automatically. Once you open your browser, you just have to confirm its installation in the browser.

I recently installed Mcafee Internet Security,you are right, automatically appeared in my Firefox extension to install it but after 2 hours from the installation and another thing is that you can miss it if you only want to execute a quick test.

 

[Burrito]

McAfee was acquired by Intel in 2011.

It was stated for MANY years that Intel being involved with McAfee would help them become a more legit AV. It never seemed to happen.

Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, acquired a 51% stake in the company last year. So Intel is now a minority shareholder... but not the owner. That's why the term 'Intel' disappeared from the McAfee homepage last December. And there were reports several months ago that Thoma Bravo may purchase the remaining 49% from Intel.

Overall, I think McAfee along with Webroot are the two worst commonly discussed AVs here at MT.