Product Description

McAfee Internet Security 2010 - Comprehensive, award-wining PC security to freely explore online

With the daily emergence of new and more sophisticated Internet threats that could disrupt your digital life, you need more than a simple anti-virus program to protect yourself, your computer, and your family. You need feature-rich and simple-to-use McAfee Internet Security 2010 software.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38 in Software
• Brand: McAfee
• Released on: 2009-09-14
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM

Manufacturer's 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.

Box Contains
McAfee Internet Security  2010 - 3 User
A5 Set Up Guide

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Customer Reviews

Beware of "Always On Protection"
Be very careful not to get yourself signed up for their "Always On Protection".

I used my credit card to renew the McAfee that came with my Dell PC. I'm not sure if it was in the McAfee small print or not, but they then automatically re-renewed the software without warning taking an additional payment from my card! (Even though the PC was on it's last legs and due to be scrapped).

The automated e-mail which they sent out to 'thank me for my successful renewal' didn't even give clear contact details to cancel the renewal (e-mail replies were simply bounced). In desperation I logged onto their site and their server wouldn't even let me delete my credit card details, let alone cancel the "Always On Protection" or my entire account and personal details.

The only way I found to rectify it was to call their UK Home & Home Office sales line (0207 949 0107).

The way McAfee abuse their customers loyalty is enough to put me off buying their software ever again (even if it comes bundled with a Dell PC).

Dave Gee

its like pulling your teeth out - avoid
Been a long-term McAfee AV user and I would not have it anymore even if it was free (and it is free from many banks, ISPs, etc now).

1. Its a resource hog. Takes 140MB of my 512MB memory (which is a lot considering everything else takes 110MB while idling). It takes a long time for its own control panel to start up let alone do anything.

2. You have little control over it - if you switch off one of the many components (because you need to) they may not disable properly and it will then constantly keep warning you that you are not protected. Then you also have to be careful what you click because its quick to re-enable everything. Why would you need to do this? Sometimes what you legitimately want to do is blocked.

3. The suites include lots of unnecessary programs - which would be OK if, once you install one and find that it interferes with something you want to do, you can disable it completely or un-install it independently. These non-essential components hog resources, block things you want, add little to your protection, or you can get much better ones for free elsewhere.

4. System requirements stated on their website are misleading (Minimum 256MB RAM? I don't think so!). I have WinXP system, had 512RAM, McAfee was resource hog but in Oct09 after an auto-update from McAfee, it started to consume 75% more - made system very slow! No warning, no choice. They say you can install it on Win2000 - only after three re-installs and about six microsoft component installs they don't warn you about.

5. Although their support system is now technically good, I have hardly ever been able to find the info I needed, and my one support experience was bad (not just poor). Also, watch out for subscription renewal costs much higher than you can buy it elsewhere (even with discount included).

They've wasted a lot of my life with their poor software quality and poor support & info. Check various forums and see the unhappy users (although there are unhappy users of all the major suites, McAfee are currently the worst of a bad bunch IMHO - even Norton is better).

Great Protection
Being an Internet Security package, McAfee is crammed with tons of features which we all need nowadays.

- The standard anti-virus and anti-spyware
- 2 way firewall
- enterprise grade anti-spam
- anti-phising
- site advisor
- stealth mode
- shredder
- parental controls
- data backup

Its a good security package, doesn't slow down your PC like other products, interface is fairly easy to use once your familiar with it and all the scans/updates can be done automatically.
Essentially for novices its as easy as installing and forgetting about it until you do get infected -- but i presume the interface will be as simple as it is now to clean up threats.

An alternative to consider is Norton Internet Security 2010. Although both offer robust protection, Norton's interface is second to none.