App Review McAfee Ultimate 2025

[bazang]

I feel like the US goverment gave mcafee some funds to be the next best great antivirus like kaspersky. The US had to intimidate Russia by saying we will ban your software and make our neighboring provider stronger and better hahahahahah. Boom now mcafee is like the top AV lol.

The US Government has little to do with McAfee. In fact, the Trump administration prosecuted McAfee a time or two if I recall for abuse of consumers via autorenewal subscriptions and something else. It is highly doubtful that the US is waging a battle against Russia via McAfee.

The answer to McAfee's improvement is much more simple. Captialism. Greed is good.

Investment Group Owner of McAfee in 2014:

• Condor BidCo

Members of the Investment Group:

• Advent International Corporation
• Permira Advisers LLC
• Crosspoint Capital Partners
• Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
• GIC Private Limited
• Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

McAfee Board of Directors includes ex-Symantec executives.

Which companies get subsidized the most by the US?

Which U.S. Companies Receive the Most Government Subsidies?

Government subsidies are nearing tens of billions for some companies. Here’s the ones which got the most taxpayer support.

www.visualcapitalist.com

 

[Trident]

McAfee is now an LLC, in 2014 it was public. The board of directors and the management changed many times since 2014.

The answer to the improvements is, they got some billions after the business division was acquired and reinvented themselves with a small part of them.

And yeah, generous revenues (paid-only) also help.
That’s what’s needed for improvements, users should put their hands in their pockets and pay their dues.

The government has not little, but nothing to do with McAfee.

 

[bazang]

That’s what’s needed for improvements, users should put their hands in their pockets and pay their dues.

If people don't pay, then they get Comodo.

You get what you pay for.

 

[Divergent]

If people don't pay, then they get Comodo.

You get what you pay for.

The high annual cost became a deciding factor for many of us, who felt we had already overpaid. We've found a better solution with another platform that offers the same functionality without the burden of hundreds of dollars in yearly fees.

 

[Trident]

The high annual cost became a deciding factor for many of us, who felt we had already overpaid. We've found a better solution with another platform that offers the same functionality without the burden of hundreds of dollars in yearly fees.

You found this solution in the face of Chrome OS (Flex?)...
But McAfee can be purchased cheap (less than a pint of beer at the pub). The mixture of cheap and not so cheap licenses brings McAfee ~2 BN annual revenue, with which they are constantly working and filing for patents.

 

[Divergent]

You found this solution in the face of Chrome OS (Flex?)...
But McAfee can be purchased cheap (less than a pint of beer at the pub). The mixture of cheap and not so cheap licenses brings McAfee ~2 BN annual revenue, with which they are constantly working and filing for patents.

The learning curve for ChromeOS or Linux is minimal compared to the payoff. I'd rather spend a little time learning the ropes than constantly searching for deals and cluttering my system with buggy, third-party software when I have great free options already built-in.

 

[Sorrento]

I have done the learning curve long ago for Linux & still prefer Windows, I don't pay anything like half of hundreds of dollars part from I don't pay in dollars anyway, but life it full of choices & I've made mine, why even post on a McAfee thread anyway???

There are mainly two types of Linux users: First: those who use it & get on with it quietly & say I use Linux - Type two are those that assume some users are just to dim/stupid to learn Linux & look down their noses at Windows users? Type two eventually come out of the woodwork/shadows & make that point.

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[bazang]

The high annual cost became a deciding factor for many of us, who felt we had already overpaid. We've found a better solution with another platform that offers the same functionality without the burden of hundreds of dollars in yearly fees.

There are those who can afford to pay. Then there are those who cannot.

Jedem Das Seine

 

[Divergent]

There are those who can afford to pay. Then there are those who cannot.

Jedem Das Seine

What someone can afford and what they are willing to pay are two entirely separate things.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but 'Jedem Das Seine' was the motto over the Buchenwald concentration camp gate. It's a deeply offensive and inappropriate thing to say.

 

[Divergent]

I have done the learning curve long ago for Linux & still prefer Windows, I don't pay anything like half of hundreds of dollars part from I don't pay in dollars anyway, but life it full of choices & I've made mine, why even post on a McAfee thread anyway???

There are mainly two types of Linux users: First: those who use it & get on with it quietly & say I use Linux - Type two are those that assume some users are just to dim/stupid to learn Linux & look down their noses at Windows users? Type two eventually come out of the woodwork/shadows & make that point.

Edited:

I believe my initial comment about the software prices was relevant to the discussion. My follow-up was simply to elaborate on that point, as requested.

 

[bazang]

I'm not sure if you're aware, but 'Jedem Das Seine' was the motto over the Buchenwald concentration camp gate. It's a deeply offensive and inappropriate thing to say.

In German, Jedem Das Seine means To Each His Own. Saying it in German is not offensive nor is it inappropriate. Please stop trying to create drama by cherry picking a historical fact.

 

[bazang]

What someone can afford and what they are willing to pay are two entirely separate things.

That is each person's choice.

In my experience, paid software is better in many practical ways than FOSS. Plus the entire global commerce system is built upon paid software except for a tiny segment of the global market.

In life, "You get what you pay for" is generally true.

 

[simmerskool]

R133 will be an interesting release and will probably come late as McAfee integrates the visual detection of documents with malicious macros.

I booted the mcafee win10_VM today, (Patch Tuesday) and it seemed to balk / conflict with Windows Security Center. McAfee said it was current with 1.31.148 but WSC had a red flag out that McAfee was out of date. This would not resolve. I called support, and we uninstalled McAfee and then reinstalled. Now WSC said McAfee was up to date and McAfee said the same thing, but I'm still running 1.31.148. McAfee support also gave me a link for WebAdvisor > https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/safe-browser/mcafee-webadvisor.html an 85 mb exe that seems to be more than a browser extension, although I do see the extension in firefox it (still) seems grayed out (compared to Edge) and it's non-existent in Waterfox. Support gave me zero insight about the current version of McAfee, firefox / mozilla extension. Wonder is VMware an issue with McAfee? fwiw as I seem solo on this "bug."

 

[jtshadow92]

I booted the mcafee win10_VM today, (Patch Tuesday) and it seemed to balk / conflict with Windows Security Center. McAfee said it was current with 1.31.148 but WSC had a red flag out that McAfee was out of date. This would not resolve. I called support, and we uninstalled McAfee and then reinstalled. Now WSC said McAfee was up to date and McAfee said the same thing, but I'm still running 1.31.148. McAfee support also gave me a link for WebAdvisor > https://www.mcafee.com/en-us/safe-browser/mcafee-webadvisor.html an 85 mb exe that seems to be more than a browser extension, although I do see the extension in firefox it (still) seems grayed out (compared to Edge) and it's non-existent in Waterfox. Support gave me zero insight about the current version of McAfee, firefox / mozilla extension. Wonder is VMware an issue with McAfee? fwiw as I seem solo on this "bug."

When it comes to McAfee updating to the most up to date versions, you gotta give it time. McAfee doesn't release product updates in one big wave. Just give it a couple days and it will update on its own. As long as McAfee is updating its antivirus definitions frequently, you shouldnt have anything to worry about.

For WebAdvisor: Make sure you enabled "allow data collection" otherwise the extension will not work at all. I was able to get WebAdvisor fully working in WaterFox v.6.5.11. I installed the extension manually by going through ProgramFiles--> McAfee-->WebAdvisor and then selecting the extension file. Once it installed, I checked for add-on updates in Waterfox, McAfee WA updated and then I selected Allow data collection.

 

[Ryxuu]

Can somebody give me a link where I can follow the release notes of McAfee?

Thank you!

 

[roger_m]

Can somebody give me a link where I can follow the release notes of McAfee?

Changelogs are being posted to this Chinese forum in the update threads, e.g. McAfee R132 Update.

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It appears that McAfee themselves, don't publish changelogs on their website.

 

[piquiteco]

@Trident There are people who have no patience. It took nine months for them to be born, and they don't have the patience to wait three days for McAfee to analyse whether the website is malicious. Now it has been analysed and flagged as malicious, all they had to do was wait. And yet they are still indignant, saying, I'm going to change my AV, I'm going to remove McAfee or the McAfee WebAdvisor extension because they messed up by not detecting this website that has malware. I'm going to uninstall Trend Micro because it didn't detect this site. That's not how it works, folks. Be patient. No antivirus or security product extension is perfect. It seems like you're making a mountain out of a molehill. If your AV found a malicious URL and didn't detect it, don't panic when this happens, just report it, and they will analyse it. After a few days, they will come back with a verdict on whether the URL is malicious or not.

Spoiler: McAfee Block Malicious Site

 

[Moonhorse]

@Trident There are people who have no patience. It took nine months for them to be born, and they don't have the patience to wait three days for McAfee to analyse whether the website is malicious. Now it has been analysed and flagged as malicious, all they had to do was wait. And yet they are still indignant, saying, I'm going to change my AV, I'm going to remove McAfee or the McAfee WebAdvisor extension because they messed up by not detecting this website that has malware. I'm going to uninstall Trend Micro because it didn't detect this site. That's not how it works, folks. Be patient. No antivirus or security product extension is perfect. It seems like you're making a mountain out of a molehill. If your AV found a malicious URL and didn't detect it, don't panic when this happens, just report it, and they will analyse it. After a few days, they will come back with a verdict on whether the URL is malicious or not.

Spoiler: McAfee Block Malicious Site

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I just created that thread because i wanted to know insights of that phishing campaing going on and get that site flagged aswell, but it probably wont take long that they notice and move into different domain

Also i was curious about that is it enough if the antivirus detects jar file before flagging the site as malicious, it was never about mcafee just overall discussion

Sure i was using mcafee on my main computer when i posted this thread and moved yesterday back to defender for nnow since i wanted to use mcafees vpn along the antivirus but since i dont have auto-billing enabled the speed is limited, also the vpn part of mcafee should improve and in future it probably will

Also trident pretty much told that the site is rated as ''unknown/ not rated'' instead of rated as safe and the antivirus will respect that and perform more aggressive towards files on that domain

I might change my mind and change my av pretty often because i like to mess with them, but im not never saying that any antivirus is bad or blame them or complaint about how they do in overall

Everyone just started posting on that thread posts where they showed wich antivirus/dns/web filter blocks the site currently, that was not my main point when i created the thread

After all it was interesting discussion about mcafee ( how it works) and about virustotal detections, and what the jar file did after all etc.etc

 

[simmerskool]

fwiw I spent some time y/day with paid ChatGPT 5 (PhD level ) on the my McAfee WebAdvisor extension / firefox issue(s) and after ChatGPT read everything online in about 2 minutes, it said well turn off or reduce this setting in firefox, then reinstall it. Failure, try this... repeated failures. Apparently if firefox is your preferred browser and you've hardened it, good luck getting WebAdvisor to work with firefox. Works ok in Edge. Sorta counter-intuitive to turn off recommended security to install this extension. I did / do find this disappointing...

 

[Ryxuu]

I have encountered a weird issue with WebAdvisor. The Edge browser disables the extension and says: This extension reloaded itself too frequently

I tried to re-install the extension but did not work. I have an other notebook where the extension works with Edge (same Edge build number on both notebook).

What is it?