Product Description

McAfee Internet Security software offers comprehensive PC and online security with accelerated performance. It’s now available with revolutionary Active Protection technology, enabling the fastest updates and highest levels of detection against malicious threats. It provides anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, identity and two-way firewall protection. Additionally, anti-spam, parental controls and a powerful website safety advisor are included.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69 in Software
• Brand: McAfee
• Model: MIS10EMB3RAA
• Released on: 2009-09-09
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• McAfee Internet Security 2010 provides comprehensive, award-winning PC security to freely explore online
• Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, and adware
• Alerts you to websites that may try to steal your identity
• Identity protection helps you to shop, bank, and trade online safely
• Confidently use the Internet 24/7 knowing hackers can't get access to your PCs

Amazon.com Product Description
McAfee Internet Security software offers comprehensive PC and online security with accelerated performance, and helps keeps you and your family safe. It's now available with revolutionary Active Protection technology, enabling the fastest updates and highest levels of detection against malicious threats. It provides anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing and two-way firewall protection. Additionally, anti-spam and parental controls are included.

McAfee Internet Security software also features McAfee SiteAdvisor technology, a powerful website safety advisor that uses simple color codes to identify risky websites so you can safely surf the Web and transact online. With continuous and automatic updates, McAfee helps ensure that you are running the most current security to combat the ever-evolving Internet threats.

Comprehensive, award-wining PC security to freely explore online

McAfee SecurityCenter provides an easy-to-read security status screen and puts you in control with fully customizable options.

When using popular search engines, McAfee SiteAdvisor's safety ratings appear next to your search results. To see more information about the web site, roll your mouse over any SiteAdvisor safety rating.

Anti-virus and antispyware
Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, and adware.

Anti-phishing
Alerts you to websites that may try to steal your identity.

Identity protection
Helps you to shop, bank, and trade online safely.

Two-way firewall protection
Confidently use the Internet 24/7 knowing hackers can't get access to your PCs.

Website safety ratings
Warns you with color-coded ratings about unsafe websites.

New 2010 Product Features

Active Protection
Our revolutionary Active Protection technology provides the fastest protection against malicious threats to your PC. New and emerging threats are analyzed and blocked in milliseconds, so you don't have to wait for regular updates to arrive.

Quickscan
Checks for threats in the areas of your computer that are most often attacked.

Faster performance
Now with quicker startup, shutdown, and scan times, it runs silently in the background without slowing down your PC so you can play games, watch videos, and use applications uninterrupted.

Enterprise-class anti-spam
Upgraded with powerful industry grade spam protection that helps keep your inbox free from unwanted, fraudulent, offensive, and phishing emails.

Power optimization
Extends the battery lifetime of notebook PCs by deferring scheduled scans until the computer is plugged in and can be set up to shut down automatically after running a scan to help save energy.

Age-appropriate searching
Automatically sets the proper content filtering levels of popular search engines.

Parental controls support for Google Chrome
Lets your children choose Google's latest web browser and still be protected.

The McAfee Advantage

McAfee security products use award-winning technology, are easy to install, and come with unlimited email and instant message chat assistance. With continuous and automatic updates, McAfee helps ensure that you are running the most current security to combat the ever-evolving Internet threats for the duration of your subscription.

McAfee SecurityCenter
Provides an easy-to-read security status screen and puts you in control with fully customizable options McAfee SystemGuards Warns you when your computer shows specific behavior that may signal virus, spyware, or hacker activity.

Stealth Mode
Makes your computer invisible to hackers.

Shredder
Allows you to effectively remove any and all traces of confidential files from your computer.

Parental Controls
Allows your children to go online safely.

Data Backup
Automatically saves copies of your most valuable files on a CD/DVD, USB, external, or network drive.

Protection Without Interference
You can watch movies or play games uninterrupted as McAfee security service intelligently defers tasks, updates, and alerts when you're in full-screen mode.

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Customer Reviews

McAfee: Most bang for your buck!
With Bit Defender and Kaperski, McAfee rates in the top 3 on many internet security reviews (#2). Here are my 10 cents worth after using all 3 of the above. Bit Defender has an excellent firewall but during a full scan, it tends to slow down the computer quite a bit. Of the 3, Kaperski has the fastest scan. Both Mc and Ski have very good firewall. But only Mc's firewall was certified by ICSA labs in 2009. Of the 3, I found Mc's Antivirus to be superior to the other 2 ( a solid A minus - B+ for the others). It was particularly well suited in detecting malicious items from foreign websites. The user interface in Mc's was more friendly than the other 2. Although ski's is only slightly just a notch behind. Mc's uses simple to understand traffic lights. Red: warning do not click into the website. Yellow: use caution. Green: OK! What could be more simple. In terms of price Mc's is stuck between the two.
Therefore here is the verdict: Bit defender - Excellent Firewall and above average AntiVirus. Slow scan and excellent price. Kaperski: very good firewall and Antivirus. Fastest Scan. It does everything very well, but does not excel in one particular area. Downside: a little pricey. Reviewer's choice: McAfee. A very good firewall and excellent Antivirus. Scan speed C+. Full of features and user friendly (a 7 year old could understand their color code). McAfee has set the standard for your complete computer protection. It's a no brainer.

Poor Customer Service
I received a free trial of McAfee Security Center bundled with a new Samsung Netbook computer, which arrived 2 days ago. (I had previously purchased a similar Samsung Netbook in June of this year.) When I attempted to register the McAfee software as a new user, I entered my e-mail address and was informed that I already had an account, so that I must log in to my previous account. I did that and was promptly informed that my subscription had expired and that I would have to pay to renew it. I then realized that the McAfee software had jumped to the conclusion that I was still using the older Netbook, since that trial offer had indeed expired. I thought it might be fairly simple to fix this problem by explaining to McAfee that this is a different computer. Wrong.
I've spent hours with McAfee and have reached a dead end. I spoke to 2 people in India (one in customer service and one in tech support). The customer service person told me to call tech support. The tech support person told me that they could not deal with free trial issues on the phone and that the person in chat support would help me. The person in chat support (after 45 minutes of trying various things) finally told me that I would have to contact Samsung to get the problem fixed.
I can't say that I'm surprised. I gave up on McAfee years ago because of its poor customer service. Recently I've found Kaspersky to be the best choice for protecting my computers. I can't say that Kaspersky has good customer service either, but at least their programs seem to run unobtrusively without slowing down my machines, and they've successfully protected me from malware.

It is what it is
I purchased this on a goldbox deal and installed it on two computers in the last week.

As the title says: it is what it is.

It's a "protection package" that you basically buy for the antivirus . . . the rest is basically social engineering.

Firewall & "Internet Protection" is subjective -- if you only surf and e-mail, it's helpful, but otherwise it blocks ports, which you could be using for one protocol or another. Adding a firewall to an average person's machine is terribly frustrating if a port needs to be opened. Worse, if they need support to talk them through doing so, if the software isn't VERY intuitive it can add to this experience. I've yet to encounter "home" software that is good at this.

Antivirus - it's one of the leading brands; not much to expect, not hard to meet the expectation.

Backup & Restore - honestly, there's nothing better than making your own backups. Lots of good software exists to automatically back up your software, but I wouldn't purchase this package for this particular reason.

Web Filter - again, there are better and there are worse. If you're REALLY concerned about the parental filtering, you need to get a dedicated service that is proactive about updates, not an afterthought on a package. Some browsers have features like this built-in, but I've yet to find one that didn't have false positives (as I don't visit sites with malware).

Updates . . . if you just "fix" security issues, it may enable MS updates. This led me on a 2-hour reinstall of drivers . . . but that's a Microsoft issue, not necessarily this software. You should keep your Windows updated, but you need to set aside time to do updates and MAKE SURE things work afterwards . . . it's just a peril of Windows.

Hope that helps.