Product Description

Everyone needs extra protection for their personal and confidential files. McAfee Anti-Theft File Protection secures your valuable files and is simple to install. It uses the industry's leading, innovative technology to provide easy-to-use protection for your financial documents and other important files at home or work against thieves and hackers. It also allows you to keep sensitive files private even if you share a PC. Using powerful advanced technology, it lets you secure files in password protected vaults. McAfee Anti-Theft protection enables you to securely transfer files using an USB drive. It works with all major PC security software and provides you with an additional layer of protection, helping protect your privacy, your identity, and your finances.

256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) technology Provides an additional layer of protection over your basic PC security Use with other computer security software from companies like Symantec, Trend Micro, Microsoft and others A great addition to your current PC security software Minimum System Requirements Windows XP (32-Bit) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher, Windows Vista (32-Bit) Pentium-compatible processor 500 MHz or higher 256 MB RAM or higher 800 X 600 or higher resolution 10MB initial Hard Disk Space

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2537 in Software
• Brand: McAfee
• Model: MAT09EMB1HAA
• Released on: 2008-09-07
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 5.20" h x 7.40" w x 1.40" l, 1.00 pounds

Features

• Powerful Protection--helps keep you a step ahead of ever-evolving threats to ensure that you have the best protection possible
• Simplified Security--You can easily secure your financial documents, tax records and other important files in password-protected digital vaults. Keep them private even if you share the computer with others
• Create a password for your vault and use the password reset option if needed
• Create multiple vaults on your PC and USB drive?Set up as many secure areas as you want, so every user can have their own private space
• Fast and easy to install and use

Amazon.com
With the growing number of stolen and lost PCs, along with data loss and identity theft cases, it's clear everyone needs extra protection for their personal and confidential files. You need McAfee Anti-Theft File Protection to secure your valuable files. It is simple to install and uses the industry's leading, innovative technology.

Easily secure your financial documents, tax records and other important files in password-protected "digital vaults."Click to enlarge.

Fast and easy to install and use, allowing you to quickly secure your files and focus on other activities.Click to enlarge.

Total Privacy and Theft Protection for Valuable Files

Easy to Use
McAfee Anti-Theft software is fast and easy to install and use, allowing you to quickly secure your files and focus on other activities.

Powerful Protection
Using advanced technology, McAfee helps keep you a step ahead of ever-evolving threats, helping ensure that you have the best protection possible.

The Trusted Security Provider
McAfee has been the leading computer security company for nearly 20 years. We are dedicated to protecting you and your computer from threats so you can get the most out of your PC and the Internet without having to worry.

Simplified Security
You can easily secure your financial documents, tax records and other important files in password-protected "digital vaults." You can reset your password in case you forget it.

McAfee Anti-Theft security provides easy-to-use protection for your financial documents and other important files at home or work against thieves and hackers. It also allows you to keep sensitive files private even if you share a PC. Using powerful advanced technology, it lets you secure files in password protected vaults.

McAfee Anti-Theft protection enables you to securely transfer files using an USB drive. It works with all major PC security software and provides you with an additional layer of protection, helping protect your privacy, your identity, and your finances.

Product Features & Benefits

Secure your files using strong file encryption
256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) technology protects your personal documents and identity against thieves and hackers

Easily transfer and hide files
Move file into a vault and keep them private even if you share the computer with others

Create multiple vaults on your PC and USB drive
Set up as many secure areas as you want, so every user can have their own private space

Password protect your vault
Create a password for your vault and use the password reset option if needed

Extra protection
Provides an additional layer of protection over your basic PC security

Use with other computer security software
A great addition to your current PC security software

The McAfee Advantage
McAfee's security products use award-winning technology, are easy to install, and come with unlimited email and chat assistance. With continuous and automatic updates, McAfee helps ensure that you always have the best protection to combat the ever-evolving threats.

Customer Reviews

Poorly Made Encryption Program
McAfee Anti-Theft is a misleading title for this product. It is really a file encrption program and a poorly made one at that. After installation, the program prompts you to set up your vault (you can select the size) and create a password to lock it. It functions as a virtual drive on your system. There is only a 30 day free support period and unlimited email and chat, which from McAfee doesn't mean much. What is wrong with this program? It is so quickly thrown up that it doesn't include its own window. It uses a Windows Explorer window with its menu system below the Windows menu. If you save files in the vault it suggests that you delete them from your drive using a secure delete program (not included). The files can be transferred and encrypted with 256 bit AES and can be used on a USB drive. DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS PROGRAM. If you truly want an excellent alternative, spend a few more bucks and getSteganos Safe 2008 - Encryption 256 Bit AES. Steganos offers multiple safes each with up to 256GB of storage, 256 Bit AES, password protection for emails with Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows mail, a password generator, data shredder included, PicPass (which allows you to use pictures to open your safe) and uses your iPod or memory stick as a portable safe and a key to unlock your safe. McAfee comes up short and gives very little information. If they truly want to be competitive, they need to study the competition more. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON McAFEE ANTI-THEFT! One more thing, it is extremely difficult to uninstall, it still leaves traces after being uninstalled.

A Little Bit More Security
I have never used an `anti-theft' or `vault' program before, so I was a little slow on the uptake. It's fairly simple if you follow the steps carefully. The program asks you to create three answers to three questions for security for your one password. You can then create as many secure `vaults' as you want, but you have to predetermine, or guess, how many MB each vault will be to hold your information. McAfee automatically assigns a letter for each vault (it looks like another drive; i.e. Z, Y or X, etc.) 4GB is the maximum for each vault, but I found that to be very generous unless you are securing a great many photographs. Here's a clue - there are a lot of `off-site' photography websites (like Kodak) that will store your photographs for free. They are supposedly secure.

I have an external 4GB USB drive, so that works perfectly if I want to transfer between my desktop and laptop. A word of caution: Carefully plan ahead what documents you want to transfer into a vault, as you should delete them from your computer's hard drive AFTER you place them in a vault. There is a potential to lose your documents, if they are not transferred properly.

To be honest, I don't have a great deal of personal information on my computer that is able to be stolen. Here is what I did transfer to a vault; all my credit card information, my tax information and my `Last Will & Testament'. I'm sure I will find more uses in the future.

I did find in the first month of installment that I had to reinstall/repair the program as it was not showing up in my programs. A simple repair did the trick, but that concerns me for the future with sensitive information.

On the last note, I am disturbed that most of the new software programs do not come with small manuals for instructions. You need to print out the 23-page instruction manual for this - it is not that intuitive. You do need to know what you are doing. Next time someone tries to hack into my computer (it happened once); I'll feel a lot better. I'll have to see if I will renew my subscription in a year. McAfee guaranteed me that I could still access my vault information if I do not renew.

A simple, elegant solution to secure files
It is a very simple solution to a very nerve racking problem with file security. I must preface my comments by stating that I am probably an "average" computer user. Though, I am comfortably conversant in many aspects of technology, I am not particularly "geeky" and have never had the desire to hack anyone. Therefore, I cannot comment on the important aspect about the "hackability" of the application.

Good software to me is intuitive, bug-free and does not conflict with other programs. McAfee Anti-Theft passes these tests with flying colors.

The program was simple to install, doesn't take up much space on the hard drive and is very easy to understand.

Well-that is it. MCAfee Anti-Theft a nice utility, that gives you the peace of mind that your key data is secure.

Is it worth it? What is the value of losing your precious data to competitors or identity theives?