It's looking good
Wonder if it's detection and performance has changed since it's original 'rebrand'
The new cloud-based McAfee
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Wonder if it's detection and performance has changed since it's original 'rebrand'
- Jul 17, 2015
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It has definitely gotten much better! Much lighter and detection is pretty high too!
- May 3, 2015
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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.
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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.
- Jul 17, 2015
- 60
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 
- Jun 5, 2014
- 292
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.
