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McAfee is an American antivirus that, like Norton, is often found on computers assembled by major brands.
Like its competitor Norton, McAfee has had a bad reputation for many years: heavy, inefficient, bug-ridden and, above all, hell to uninstall.
Bought out by Intel, McAfee has evolved in recent years to become more coherent, lighter and more cloud-based.
Let's take a look!
Interface :
McAfee finally abandons its old-fashioned, messy interfaces and focuses on simplicity.
But the firm has made a compromise: in addition to simplicity, advanced configuration has disappeared... McAfee therefore targets novice users, as the software is ready to use straight out of the box!
In terms of power consumption, a great deal of work has gone into the software, which uses just 250MB of RAM.
Web protection: 12/12
All links blocked by McAfee
Fake crack : 1/1
Blocked
Malware Pack : Remaining 11 threats out of 121
McAfee's progress is impressive: its scans are now very fast, and so is removal!
On the execution side, McAfee has also managed to catch up with several scripts, either by blocking connections (but does not warn), or by blocking the Payload once in progress (and then warns).
Only 1 piece of malware remains in memory (a fake Discord) but is totally inactive.
Final scan :
McAfee : 0
EEK : 0
Final opinion:
McAfee has come a long way in recent years, and is becoming more efficient.
I really like the change in direction the company has taken: simplicity and efficiency. McAfee is finally becoming consistent in terms of protection, juggling its database, Machine Learning AI and the Cloud.
On the other hand, the disappearance of advanced settings will clearly upset advanced users, but McAfee doesn't cater to them (like Trendmicro).
McAfee is an antivirus I'd recommend.
Like its competitor Norton, McAfee has had a bad reputation for many years: heavy, inefficient, bug-ridden and, above all, hell to uninstall.
Bought out by Intel, McAfee has evolved in recent years to become more coherent, lighter and more cloud-based.
Let's take a look!
Interface :
McAfee finally abandons its old-fashioned, messy interfaces and focuses on simplicity.
But the firm has made a compromise: in addition to simplicity, advanced configuration has disappeared... McAfee therefore targets novice users, as the software is ready to use straight out of the box!
In terms of power consumption, a great deal of work has gone into the software, which uses just 250MB of RAM.
Web protection: 12/12
All links blocked by McAfee
Fake crack : 1/1
Blocked
Malware Pack : Remaining 11 threats out of 121
McAfee's progress is impressive: its scans are now very fast, and so is removal!
On the execution side, McAfee has also managed to catch up with several scripts, either by blocking connections (but does not warn), or by blocking the Payload once in progress (and then warns).
Only 1 piece of malware remains in memory (a fake Discord) but is totally inactive.
Final scan :
McAfee : 0
EEK : 0
Final opinion:
McAfee has come a long way in recent years, and is becoming more efficient.
I really like the change in direction the company has taken: simplicity and efficiency. McAfee is finally becoming consistent in terms of protection, juggling its database, Machine Learning AI and the Cloud.
On the other hand, the disappearance of advanced settings will clearly upset advanced users, but McAfee doesn't cater to them (like Trendmicro).
McAfee is an antivirus I'd recommend.
