Product Description

McAfee Internet Security Suite with SiteAdvisor provides trusted PCand Internet protection so your whole family can enjoy onlineactivities such as surfing the Web shopping banking e-mailingand instant messaging. Always on always protecting and alway

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #689 in Software
• Brand: McAfee
• Released on: 2006-09-30
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The internet provides a wealth of information and entertainment at your fingertips. Yet, as soon as you connect, your computer is exposed to a multitude of privacy and security risks. The best defence is a multi-layered approach with McAfee Internet Security.

Our all-in-one security suite incorporates award-winning McAfee technology so that you can surf, shop, download and email in confidence. Easy to install, configure and use, McAfee Internet Security helps safeguard personal data, prevent viruses, stop unauthorized computer access, filter spam from your inbox and block pop-up ads-all in one powerful, fully integrated package. Best of all, automatic updates ensure you always have the latest protection.

Key features:

IMPROVED! McAfee VirusScan
Automatically protects your PC, email, attachments, downloads and network from viruses, mass-mailing worms and backdoor Trojans whenever you go online. Fast anti-virus updates ensure your protection stays current. Now with more efficient email scanning of larger files.

IMPROVED! McAfee Personal Firewall Plus
Helps block hackers, identity thieves and malicious code from robbing personal data, hijacking your system (often to send spam) or planting malicious code that can compromise your privacy over dial-up, DSL or cable connections. Now with enhanced intrusion detection and fast set-up assistant.

IMPROVED! McAfee SpamKiller
Automatically recognizes and helps stop junk email-including credit card "phishing scams," virus hoaxes and foreign language spam-from polluting your inbox. Regular anti-spam filter updates ensure the latest protection against spammers. Now with enhanced spam detection technology, Personal Filter Editor and Whitelisting.

IMPROVED! McAfee Privacy Service
Helps shield individual family members from offensive content (e.g., websites, newsgroups), online stalkers and inappropriate chat, thanks to age-specific Parental Controls and easy-to-use filtering options.

Identity Protection
Helps secure personal identification and financial information (e.g., name, phone, credit card, bank account numbers) from accidental transmission over the Internet without your permission.

IMPROVED! Spyware/Adware Detection and Removal
Helps catch and delete potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) hiding on your PC that can steal log-ins and passwords (key-loggers), hijack your dial-up connection (Web dialers) or track your online surfing (adware).

Pop-Up Blocking
Helps eliminate annoying Web advertising that not only slows your surfing but also tracks your browsing habits for advertisers.

McAfee Shredder
Securely erases confidential files, folders and email for increased privacy and protection from desktop thieves.

Free live instant message and email technical support

Customer Reviews

Beats Norton Any Day!
Ok, so I think it is clear that any anti-virus software is going to slow down your computer. The control you have is in what way you are ground to a near halt! Both Norton and McAfee are easy to use, so no difference there, and both seem to have kept me virus free!

I have been using Norton for about 3 years, and was sick of how slow it made everything, and McAfee was cheaper so I took the plunge. Props to Amazon, I ordered it at lunchtime on Monday and it was with me Tuesday morning!!

I didn't install all the bits that previous reviewers told me not to, which will have helped my experience from the start, but I do prefer it to Norton. Should also be said though, my computer started up in about 1/10 of the time during the transition when I had no anti-virus software installed! And, true to form, Norton is a pain to uninstall!

On startup, Norton stops you from being able to use your computer at all until it has finished faffing around, which is a pretty long time! McAfee faffs for longer, but you can use your computer at a slightly slower speed for this time.

I like the way McAfee doesn't virus scan a Word/Excel document every time I try to open it, this have literally saved me about 30 minutes a day in waiting over Norton!!

Also, McAfee does seem to let you tell it what to do more. I told my mother's computer (which has Norton) to ask her before it runs Windows Update (she's on dial up and it's a pain), but Norton was having none of this, and forced me to change the settings back to automatic update. I was displeased... McAfee, however, has a "disregard this problem" button, so it carries on running happily when you change something. I like this freedom!

I think it totally depends what you want from anti-virus software, but McAfee is definately the one for me! Now if I could only work out how to tell it to virus scan once a month not once a day...

Too clever for its own good!
I have been a user of McAfee products for many years, but this is possibly the worst offering from them that I have ever purchased. I originally installed the whole product - what a mistake. I have a high speed broadband connection that instantly slowed to the speed of dial-up. I removed the software, reinstalled just the firewall, virus checker and spamkiller - the speed improved, but was still little better than a slow speed broadband connection. Further digging indicated that a phishing filter was slowing the whole system down - switching that off improved the access speeds considerably. If you want something that works straight out of the box, I suggest looking elsewhere - if you have a bit of knowledge of computers and can spare the time to tweak the programme to obtain an acceptable trade off between protection level and speed, then this product is adequate. However, still expect to see some degradation in your internet access speeds even if you accept lower levels of protection.

A Big Disappointment
I've been running McAfee 2006 for ages, and have been very happy with it. The extra features of the 2007 version looked very tempting, so I went ahead and got it. For anyone considering the same I have this advice- DON'T! Everything seemed fine, Virusscan picked up loads of tracking cookies that 2006 and Windows Defender had left, and I was impressed with the system mantainence and cleaning tools. Then I connected to the internet, and it went rapidly downhill. Most webpages are really slow, slower than dial-up, and some refuse to load at all. Turning off the unsuitable keyword and image scanning features (which I assumed were the culprits) made no difference. I have removed it from my PC and put 2006 back on while I consider different security packages (AVG Internet Security looks good). Very disappointed with McAfee.