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: #738 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 Upgrade
A5 Set Up Guide

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Customer Reviews

buy this if like paying for pain or have a powerful system
I've been a McAfee user for many many years. It used to be good. For the last 3-4yrs they suck big-time. I have had to waste so much of my time because of Internet Security Suite & because of their rubbish support and inaccurate information.

I have not had any virus problems, but that may be more to do with my safe Internet practices than McAfee. See various AV/Firewall test/comparison websites to see that McAfee is not the best at anything. I am changing to free software (Avast/Online Armor) because many of the other big security companies have a lot of dissatisfied customers - McAfee & Norton being the worst ones. If I'm going to have my time wasted by bloaty, poor-supported software I would rather not pay for it too!

Problems:
They say it works on Win2000. Maybe only downhill, with the wind behind it, on thursdays in leap years. It was a nightmare to install - requiring a whole load of updated Microsoft components to be installed - and not letting you know this until too late (then you have to re-install after using the uninstall tool!). After installing - the system takes literally 5mins to startup/shutdown - and updating kills it. You need to have a v.powerful Win2K system to cope with McAfee.

On WinXP: you need a powerful system. Mine is old-ish. It has 512MB RAM with 2GHz processor, this was running Ok with McAfee Suite until Oct 2009, except the system was unusable during virus scans. However, after a McAfee update in Oct, suddenly McAfee uses up 75% more RAM (all the time). Now my system is slow. When they do updates its basically unusable for a few minutes - and they now do updates 1 to 3 times a day. I found that by upgrading RAM to 1GB the system was brought to slightly better than its original performance - but should I be forced into this without warning by some automatic virus update?!

Forget the minimum system requirements on their website (a laughable 256 MB RAM) - it needs at least 1GB RAM and 2GHz processor to have a usable system on WinXP - probably more on Vista.

Generally: Regardless of the system power, it takes tens of seconds for the control panel (SecurityCentre) to startup, and then ages for any responses from it. It takes ages to manual-scan a file. If you install everything from the suite - you cannot disable some of the non-essential items - even if you set the component to be 'off' in the control panel it is no guarantee that it is still not running and blocking something. The email, spam or privacy protections were blocking a gaming chat program I was trying to run - no matter what I did I could not get it to work. Only when I uninstalled McAfee and re-installed it without all the non-essential rubbish did the program start working!

You don't need email scanning or spam protection if you only use webmail that is already scanned by the provider, and don't need IM protection if you don't use IM. If you try to switch any of these components off then McAfee goes into "Check your protection status" mode until you switch them on again - a real pain because you can then never tell from its alerts if there is a genuine security problem, and it keeps complaining about the status.

SO, components that you would not expect to have any impact on something running on your system, actually do interfere (e.g. email scanning blocking a voice chat program). Even if you switch-off components it does not mean they won't still be blocking things - you have to completely uninstall them. I am a computer techie so know a bit about how this stuff is supposed to work and how to set it up.

And the "Manage Network" component? Its causes more trouble than its actually worth. Its good at stopping you doing things on your own network.

Support: well the online knowledge base is rubbish - if there is something you need that does not show McAfee in a bad light, e.g. how to click a button, you will find it there - otherwise forget it. Their online chat facility for tech support is well organised and works well, however, you get to chat with someone in a foreign country that works through a script and can't cope with deviations.

My particular bad experience with this was to try to uninstall an enterprise version of virusscan so I could install a paid-for, home version of Security Suite. After I tried explaining this 3 times, he tried to fob me off by telling me to contact the enterprise division. Then he tried to fob me off by telling me to call a toll-free number - which was in another country and would not be toll-free for me! I won't mention the number of times he tried to remotely analyse a computer which had nothing to do with my problem, even after I explained this to him repeatedly.

In summary: you won't notice many operational problems if you have a relatively powerful system for the day, and if you stick to doing run-of-the-mill stuff with common software (such as MS Office), and you want McAfee to run your life for you. You will still notice the badly designed interface and software.

If you have a system thats over 4yrs old or you like to do a lot of browsing/downloading/communicating or you might need support - forget it. If you like dealing with a company that will not give you accurate or honest information about their products then carry on. Or if you like paying to cause yourself pain, I suggest buying heavy glass vases and smashing them over your head.

McAfee internet security
I am totally happy with the service. It was prompt and the item was as described. Could not be better. 100% happy

Internet Security 2010 - 3 User
Does what it says on the tin! Have been a regular user of McAfee's anti-virus / security products for many years. This time they seem to have resolved the issue with upgrading (removing the older copy first!). Currently installed on 2 machines and no problems with performance, etc., on either.