Product Description

Proven security that protects your digital lifestyle! Prevent viruses, block hackers, identify spam and protect your identity. 2006 Edition with 1 year update subscription included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #625 in Software
• Brand: McAfee
• Released on: 2005-10-20
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP Professional
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .4 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

Awful, useless and intrusive software
I think I would rather suffer from viruses than deal with McAfee's rubbish software any longer. When I installed it I chose not to have the Spamkiller option as it is just useless and ever since then it pops up a message with a very annoying accompanying tone a few times a day to tell me that I need to reinstall it. There is no way I can find of removing this message which is very frustrating. Today I have decided to remove the software and advise everyone I know against buying it because when I turned my computer on it told me that I was unprotected; so I clicked the 'fix' button which has never worked to date. It then told me that it couldn't update my software because I had some conflicting software on my computer that was preventing this...guess what it was; MacAfee Privacy service!! to add insult to injury I ran MacAfee uninstall and the Privacy service didn't even come up as an option. I think they must employ blind monkeys to write this appalling software. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolute Rubbish
After installing it (with about 3 reboots), my log in time went from 30 seconds to 4mins. I started to update the virus definitions, etc and it needs a reboot after downloading the installer, then a rebook after the installation and then a reboot to finish the installation. After all that when my PC eventually boots and logs in, the virus killer is not enabled and I have to manually enable it every time.

So I decided to uninstall it and you'd think that would be just a case of "Add/Remove programs" and removing it, but it leaves registry entries and files all over the place.

This product doesn't even deserve 1 star.
Don't even bother with this. I'm going back to my free AVG virus killer.

do not buy
it made both the home pc and my new laptop come to a virtual standstill. apparently it the actual Mcafee software has problems with some Windows software.
So I would check on their internet site before you buy to check their progress with finding a cure for the problem before you buy.