Product Description

McAfee Internet Security Suite with SiteAdvisor provides trusted PC and Internet protection so your whole family can enjoy online activities such as surfing the Web, shopping, banking, e-mailing and instant messaging. Always on, always protecting and always updating, McAfee delivers a worry-free Internet experience because it guards both your identity and your PC from viruses, spyware, e-mail and phishing scams, and hackers. With its new automated backup feature, McAfee Internet Security Suite with SiteAdvisor makes it easy to safeguard your most important photos, music, videos and files. If anything is ever lost or corrupted, you can restore files and data with just one simple click. In addition, the latest McAfee software and updates download automatically, so you never have to install anything manually when a new version is available. Also included in your subscription is McAfee NetworkManager, which simplifies control over the security of all your home PCs. NetworkManager plugs into McAfee® SecurityCenter, which has been redesigned to give you an at-a-glance view of your security status.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3330 in Software
• Color: 1-user
• Brand: McAfee
• Model: MIS07EMB1RUA
• Released on: 2006-08-25
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Automatically blocks, cleans, and removes viruses and spyware so you can surf the Web the safely
• Protects and conceals your computer from hackers so you can connect to the Internet safely
• Parental controls allow you to filter offensive content, pictures, and Web sites to help keep your children safe when online
• The simple but powerful automated backup can restore photos, music, videos and other important files
• Prevents spam and phishing scams so you can e-mail friends and family safely

Amazon.com
With the increase in viruses, spyware, hackers, e-mail scams, online predators and other online attacks, it’s more important than ever to protect you and your family. You need an easy way to protect your PC, files, identity, and online experience. McAfee Internet Security Suite is the protection you need to keep you and your family safe when surfing the Web, shopping, banking, playing games and enjoying other online activities. McAfee Internet Security Suite also allows you to back up your files, and restore lost or corrupted data. Get the confidence you need knowing McAfee shields your PC around the clock.

The McAfee SecurityCenter lets you view your protection status with just one click. View larger.

McAfee offers a variety of software solutions to give you the level of protection that's right for your family or small business. View larger.

8-in-1 Protection
McAfee Internet Security Suite is 8-in-1 protection for your PC, important files, identity and online experience. Relax knowing that you always have the latest protection updates, software upgrades and enhancements automatically delivered to you.

Stop Viruses. McAfee Internet Security Suite automatically blocks, cleans, and removes viruses so you can surf the Web and download files.

Block Spyware. McAfee blocks spyware before it can be installed on your computer, and removes existing spyware.

Stop Hackers. Protect and conceal your computer from hackers so you can surf the Internet safely.

Improve Your PC's Performance. With McAfee's tools to clean clutter off your computer, you can keep it healthy and running smoothly.

Back Up & Restore Files. Automated backup and one-click restore features ensure that you don’t lose photos, music, and important files.

Secure Your Identity. McAfee protects your online identity so you can shop, bank, e-mail and instant message worry-free.

Prevent Spam & E-mail Scams. McAfee Total Protection prevents spam and phishing scams so you can e-mail friends and family safely.

Protect Children Online. Parental controls allow you to filter offensive content, pictures and Web sites so you can keep your children safe when online.

Security, Simplified
The new McAfee SecurityCenter makes security easy. With one-click, you can view your protection status. You can also check for updates and fix potential security issues.

Safe Searching With McAfee SiteAdvisor
In addition to 8-in-1 protection, you get McAfee SiteAdvisor’s Web safety ratings, which help you stay safe from adware, spyware, spam and online scams as you search, browse and shop online.

Always On, Always Protecting, Always Updating
When you install McAfee McAfee Internet Security Suite, you are subscribing to the most up-to-date security software delivered to you by McAfee’s patented Security as a Service (SaS) technology. Daily threat protection and updates are delivered to you 24/7 from McAfee’s world-class research center, McAfee Avert Labs. Free software upgrades and enhancements are provided as long as your subscription is active.

McAfee offers a variety of renewal options to keep your McAfee protection current. Teams of experts are available 24/7 via Internet chat and e-mail by visiting www.mcafeehelp.com.

There is a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied, McAfee offers a full refund.

New and Improved Features
For 2007, McAfee Internet Security Suite includes these new and improved features:

• New: Integrated anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall and backup technologies.
• Improved: Spyware protection detects, blocks and removes spyware and adware.
• New: Complete inbound and outbound firewall protection automatically trusts known good applications and helps block spyware, Trojans and key loggers.
• New: Stealth mode hides your presence on the Internet.
• New: Automated back up saves copies of your most valuable files wherever you want, encrypting and compressing your files on a CD/DVD, or USB, external, or network drive.
• New: McAfee Image Analysis enhances content protection by protecting your family from potentially offensive pictures.
• New: McAfee SystemGuards watch your computer for specific behaviors that may signal virus, spyware, or hacker activity.
• New: McAfee X-Ray for Windows detects and kills rootkits and other malicious applications that hide from Windows and other anti-virus programs.
• New: McAfee SiteAdvisor adds safety ratings to sites and search engine results based on comprehensive spam, adware, and online scam safety tests.
• Improved: McAfee SecurityCenter.
• New: Network Manager monitors PCs across your network for security weaknesses so you can easily identify network security issues.
• New: Built-in computer health and performance tools.

Customer Reviews

McAfee Sells Garbage
I was a McAfee customer of several years. The program is a resource hog and bogged down my system. Contact with the company to resolve the issue was futile. Technical support referred me to customer service. Customer service referred me to technical support. Neither one could help and McAfee refused to refund my money. Do NOT buy this program! It is worse than a waste of money, it's a waste of money AND an unneeded aggravation. Stick with a better program like BitDefender.

Took control of my computer and slowed it down; non-existent customer service
The first unpleasant surprise was that McAfee Internet Security Suite blocked several web pages which I absolutely wanted to open. I tried to make the program understand that those web pages were OK and I wanted to visit them. Well, I couldn't find a way of doing that. I also discovered that web browsing had gotten much slower than usual. Then I wanted to disable popup blocking. I opened the appropriate menu in McAfee Internet Security Suite and disabled popup blocking. However, I noticed that the popups were still being blocked. I opened McAfee Internet Security Suite again to make sure I hadn't made a mistake. No, I hadn't, McAfee Internet Security Suite told me that popup blocking was disabled. In spite of that, the popups were being blocked. I could not find the way to make McAfee Internet Security Suite allow popups. Finally, I discovered that it was impossible to close McAfee Internet Security Suite. The program itself didn't allow such elementary operation as "close" (or at least I couldn't find it) and even Task Manager wouldn't close the processes. The only way to close McAfee Internet Security Suite was by uninstalling it, which I did.
These are just the two biggest complaints I have about this program. I won't bother you with the rest. To make the long story short, in order to avoid viruses and spyware taking control of my computer and slowing it down, I ended up installing McAfee Internet Security Suite which took control of my computer and slowed it down.
Now, the company promised me by email a 30-day money back guarantee. So I wrote to them asking for a refund. My email came back with an error message. Then, I tried to find another email address on their website. It turned out home users could only reach the company by telephone. I didn't, however, want to call them, as I have difficulties understanding British accent, and besides, why do I have to call in the first place? It is reasonable to expect that it be possible to reach a software vendor by email. Anyway, as the last resort, I browsed through a maze of help pages hoping to finally reach some kind of a contact form. It was hopeless. So I wrote to an address on the company's website that was intended for corporate customers, as that was the closest I could find. I told them politely that I knew that it wasn't the correct address, but as they were working in the same company, it shouldn't be too difficult for them to forward my message to the right people. I was hoping that the different departments of McAfee were communicating with each other. It turned out I was wrong. I got a reply which was polite but which's essential content was: beat it, this is not my responsibility area.
So I would like to warn you that if you buy this product, don't expect to get any help from the vendor, as it's not even possible to contact them by email. I am continuing my attempts to make McAfee keep its word. Wish me luck.

Another unhappy customer
Much worse than previous McAfee editions.

I dropped Norton on some older desktops due to its lack of support for W2000. I then went to the free edition of AVG anti-virus, which was OK but slowed things down. Thinking "you get what you pay for" I sprung for McAfee which has been OK in the past. The edition I purchased has 3 licenses. I installed one of these on my wife's XP laptop as well as one of my desktops (luckily, she's still talking to me).

The 2007 McAfee Suite makes AVG look like a free Ferrari. Absolutely terrible performance, coupled with a mediocre interface. Perhaps the only poorer-performing way to assure you'll never get a virus, spam, etc. would be to hit your motherboard with a hammer.

This will slow down your computer (even worse, unpredictably). If you have lots of email in Outlook or Outlook Express expect to open your mail box, then have a long break before you can do a thing (as it rechecks everything for spam). There's a partial workaround for this, but users shouldn't have to search for workarounds. Every Web action now has noticeable latency -- as well as slower applications when McAfee is grinding away in the background. If you liked your current anti-spam, kiss it goodbye -- McAfee may not let you keep it. McAfee (like Norton) is also difficult to remove from your system. What prompted this review? Today it appears the update process rebooted my computer without requiring a "yes" from me.

As for alternatives, I wasn't able to get Kaspersky anti-virus to run on an older machine -- somewhare a remnant of Norton persisted (possibly a document tagged Symantec etc. left over from a day of working with them ages ago). However, I did get it running on a laptop and its better than Norton-McAfee-and even AVG in my opinion.

So, consider Kaspersky or another vendor. If that doesn't work try AVG.

It will be interesting to see how McAfee responds -- they've really shot themselves in the foot with this release.

Here's an update -- and why McAfee should get a NEGATIVE FIVE. In uninstalling McAffee, it basically trashed my registry. This won't happen to everyone, but it is apparently a common problem with folks with lots of installed software. Hours of manually trying to rebuild it, based on McAfee and others' instructions, didn't work. The only way out was a complete reinstall of Windows and all my programs and all my data. That's the same worst-case outcome of the worst virus you''re likely to get. I've bought two copies of Kaspersky and so far, so good. However, my next computer will be a Mac Pro with Parallels. It's an interesting world, where McAfee can cause Microsoft to lose future business.