Serious Discussion Quick Play with McAfee

[Sorrento]

I''ll second that

 

[stonjean633]

Educational post indeed. Thumbs up!

 

[Jonny Quest]

I’m a bit jealous of you guys. Just yesterday I received a popup saying I only had 29% of my RAM free — obviously trying to sell that PC Optimizer junk.

I also occasionally get popups asking me to run a scan after restarting the machine.

For what it’s worth, my license was purchased from a major computer hardware retailer here in Brazil (Kabum!).

Overall, I like the product quite a bit, but I really dislike how aggressively McAfee tries to keep reminding me that it exists.

I just got this one 5 minutes ago above the system tray The first time I installed McAfee, I had an option to disable Notifications in Account/General Settings, but that has since been an option of the past?

 

[piquiteco]

I just got this one 5 minutes ago above the system tray The first time I installed McAfee, I had an option to disable Notifications in Account/General Settings, but that has since been an option of the past?

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This is terrible for a product like McAfee with these pop-ups saying your PC has 53 registry problems. It seems like McAfee is haunted by the past or rising from the dead. It's not good to see this. They need to focus on security.

 

[nickstar1]

McAfee seems to take feedback well have you submitted feedback on this negative experience?

 

[Sunqfu]

R136 has just come out of the oven. You can install it by checking for updates.

 

[Sorrento]

Any noticed changes??

 

[Sunqfu]

Any noticed changes??

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

Additionally, the neo engine upgrade is now independent from the main program version update. 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 includes a PDF parsing module.

 

[devjitdutta2025]

@Trident Firstly I want to thank you because if it were not for your reviews and tests, I wouldn’t have tried Mcafee. I use it now on my family PC with SWH and WFC. It works flawlessly, is ultra fast and has protected the PC well. Recently my father has started using the PC to log into his bank website and because of that I have thought of isolating the browser using sandboxie and using KeyScrambler. The default browser is Firefox with uBo and Web Advisor. What do you suggest? Is it okay to use Sandboxie and KeyScrambler with Mcafee?

 

[Trident]

@Trident Firstly I want to thank you because if it were not for your reviews and tests, I wouldn’t have tried Mcafee. I use it now on my family PC with SWH and WFC. It works flawlessly, is ultra fast and has protected the PC well. Recently my father has started using the PC to log into his bank website and because of that I have thought of isolating the browser using sandboxie and using KeyScrambler. The default browser is Firefox with uBo and Web Advisor. What do you suggest? Is it okay to use Sandboxie and KeyScrambler with Mcafee?

McAfee's architecture should not conflict in any way with Sandboxie and KeyScrambler, some users have even combined McAfee with Eset.

 

[devjitdutta2025]

McAfee's architecture should not conflict in any way with Sandboxie and KeyScrambler, some users have even combined McAfee with Eset.

Thank you for your response . Combining 2 antiviruses together generally is not a good idea. I myself use Web Advisor with ESET but not the full suite. But for the past few days I was really wondering if I could install AVG or Avast with ONLY the Behaviour Shield component in order to complement my ESET SSP. I don’t know if anybody at MT has any idea regarding this strange combo . But I must say that this new Mcafee is just awesome. They have changed the entire program.

 

[Trident]

Thank you for your response . Combining 2 antiviruses together generally is not a good idea. I myself use Web Advisor with ESET but not the full suite. But for the past few days I was really wondering if I could install AVG or Avast with ONLY the Behaviour Shield component in order to complement my ESET SSP. I don’t know if anybody at MT has any idea regarding this strange combo . But I must say that this new Mcafee is just awesome. They have changed the entire program.

They rewrote McAfee with much newer architecture.

It is not a good idea combining Avast Behavioural Shield with anything else to be honest.

 

[nickstar1]

I can confirm that Sandboxie is 100% full compatible with mcafee both versions.

 

[devjitdutta2025]

I can confirm that Sandboxie is 100% full compatible with sandboxie both versions.

Sandboxie compatible with sandboxie? I think one of them should have been Mcafee

 

[nickstar1]

Sandboxie compatible with sandboxie? I think one of them should have been Mcafee

meant to say McAfee ill edit my post lol to many beers that night HAHAHA!

 

[BSONE]

Question for Trident:
Taking licence cost out of the equation, would you recommend McAfee over ESET?

 

[vonvon]

For our information, I switched from ESET Home Security Premium to McAfee Total Protection on my main computer the day before yesterday. I've noticed the machine is faster and feels more streamlined. I'm sticking with McAfee because I know its level of protection is at worst equal to ESET's and likely better, according to the latest tests.

 

[Moonhorse]

Question for Trident:
Taking licence cost out of the equation, would you recommend McAfee over ESET?

I would take eset over mcafee, the price this day isnt bad from 3rd party keysites. Apparently the sites selling keys that are attached to email of buyers, but it seems that doesnt affect into anything else, you can bind the key to your own email.

Eset looks like serious competer, you can manage it alot more
McAfee has its pros, light, doing good protection wise and installs in 20 seconds, is install & forget. But i miss the customisation with it, even its good it just dont feel like having antivirus at all, personally more the antivirus has settings to mess with its more fun for me

 

[Sunqfu]

I received a new update; you can check it manually.

 

[Jonny Quest]

I received a new update; you can check it manually.

Do you mean this one, R136?