New Update The new cloud-based McAfee

[superleeds27]

In mcafee, the interface has been refreshed again - a huge interface with fewer distractions and cards, just like the latest version of f secure.

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It's looking good

Wonder if it's detection and performance has changed since it's original 'rebrand'

 

[jtshadow92]

It's looking good

Wonder if it's detection and performance has changed since it's original 'rebrand'

It has definitely gotten much better! Much lighter and detection is pretty high too!

 

[superleeds27]

It has definitely gotten much better! Much lighter and detection is pretty high too!

Might be one to stick on the consider list as a backup

 

[tofargone]

Was just pondering, Mcafee is so fast, and why. Well, If it turns off defender and windows firewall, and Mcafee handles everything in the cloud, then this would mean the speed is attributed to it not being installed, and turning off MS own security

 

[mlnevese]

Was just pondering, Mcafee is so fast, and why. Well, If it turns off defender and windows firewall, and Mcafee handles everything in the cloud, then this would mean the speed is attributed to it not being installed, and turning off MS own security

Every security software that is not a second opinion scanner will turn off Windows Defender and most will turn off the firewall as well and use its own, that's not the reason it's light. Also it is installed and has local signatures but it's heavily cloud based.

 

[roger_m]

Was just pondering, Mcafee is so fast, and why. Well, If it turns off defender and windows firewall, and Mcafee handles everything in the cloud, then this would mean the speed is attributed to it not being installed, and turning off MS own security

Windows itself, automatically disables Defender when another antivirus is installed. Being cloud based, means that detections mostly come from the cloud, rather than from local signatures, however it still has realtime protection components installed which use resources.

 

[jtshadow92]

McAfee doesn't turn off Windows Firewall. The product instead uses Windows Firewall for inbound connections and McAfee for outbound connections. Very similar to Trend Micro's firewall booster

 

[Game Of Thrones]

Was just pondering, Mcafee is so fast, and why. Well, If it turns off defender and windows firewall, and Mcafee handles everything in the cloud, then this would mean the speed is attributed to it not being installed, and turning off MS own security

The key to its lightness is that it scans at the execution stage, not on access. It scans only the exe files you download from the Internet. This on-execution thing makes nearly every other security product lighter, too! You can set, for example, Eset Kaspersky, etc., to scan just on execution and see how light they become.