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Should You Trust McAfee in 2023?
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<blockquote data-quote="Trident" data-source="post: 1026685" data-attributes="member: 99014"><p>It seems like since the business division got acquired, McAfee has been focused on core activities more (security and privacy) and much less on features not of first necessity. They got rid of anti-spam, tuneup, file encryption (which was outdated), web boost, pc boost (the one that prioritises processes), vulnerability scanning (app updates) and many others. They also got rid of intrusion detection in firewall, as they say this feature is now provided by modern CPUs (it used to block certain exploits).</p><p></p><p>McAfee now tries to compete with Norton better by offering what LifeLock does (credit monitoring, identity theft insurance, restoration, dark web scanning), personal data cleanup (sending data removal requests). Their implementation of these features is far better than Norton and detects a lot more and faster. LifeLock has notified me of 4 breaches and McAfee has notified me of over 100 which include a leaked password found in various combo lists.</p><p>McAfee notified me of the twitter breach a week before LifeLock.</p><p></p><p>McAfee’s VPN based on Tunnel Bear is far better and faster than Norton’s VPN based on Surf Easy.</p><p></p><p>I spoke to tier 2 support yesterday to establish when this re-written and cloud-oriented version that was announced in October will be released.</p><p>I was excited to test it, but it won’t download.</p><p>Apparently we are few months away. The new version will use global URL filtering based on web reputation (outbound connections only). It is a much needed improvement as McAfee is the only “big player” that blocks dodgy websites and C&C servers in-browser only.</p><p>I am not sure why an announcement has been published way ahead of the release.</p><p></p><p>They are definitely working hard to make their product better and will be tested soon.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103324&page=shell&shell=article-view[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103342&page=shell&shell=article-view[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?page=shell&shell=article-view&articleId=TS103343[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?locale=en-US&articleId=TS103172&fromSearch=true&page=shell&shell=article-view[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trident, post: 1026685, member: 99014"] It seems like since the business division got acquired, McAfee has been focused on core activities more (security and privacy) and much less on features not of first necessity. They got rid of anti-spam, tuneup, file encryption (which was outdated), web boost, pc boost (the one that prioritises processes), vulnerability scanning (app updates) and many others. They also got rid of intrusion detection in firewall, as they say this feature is now provided by modern CPUs (it used to block certain exploits). McAfee now tries to compete with Norton better by offering what LifeLock does (credit monitoring, identity theft insurance, restoration, dark web scanning), personal data cleanup (sending data removal requests). Their implementation of these features is far better than Norton and detects a lot more and faster. LifeLock has notified me of 4 breaches and McAfee has notified me of over 100 which include a leaked password found in various combo lists. McAfee notified me of the twitter breach a week before LifeLock. McAfee’s VPN based on Tunnel Bear is far better and faster than Norton’s VPN based on Surf Easy. I spoke to tier 2 support yesterday to establish when this re-written and cloud-oriented version that was announced in October will be released. I was excited to test it, but it won’t download. Apparently we are few months away. The new version will use global URL filtering based on web reputation (outbound connections only). It is a much needed improvement as McAfee is the only “big player” that blocks dodgy websites and C&C servers in-browser only. I am not sure why an announcement has been published way ahead of the release. They are definitely working hard to make their product better and will be tested soon. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103324&page=shell&shell=article-view[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS103342&page=shell&shell=article-view[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?page=shell&shell=article-view&articleId=TS103343[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mcafee.com/support/?locale=en-US&articleId=TS103172&fromSearch=true&page=shell&shell=article-view[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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