McAfee AntiVirus Plus, now available with revolutionary Active Protection technology, offers essential PC security with accelerated performance and helps keeps you safe from viruses, spyware and hackers. Features include anti-virus, firewall, privacy protection, PC optimization, web protection, and WiFi network monitor. Get it now!
What’s Included?
Award-Winning Anti-Virus Protection
- Stay safe from Trojans, viruses, spyware, rootkits, and more, with state-of-the-art anti-malware protection
- Detects, quarantines, and blocks viruses and malware to prevent damage to your PC
- Keep zero-day threats and botnets at bay—McAfee Active Protection™ and Global Threat Intelligence technology have you covered
Privacy and PC Optimization Tools
- Identifies software in need of updating by checking the version on your PC against our database using Vulnerability Scanner
- Deletes unnecessary cookies and temporary internet files that slow down your PC with McAfee® QuickClean™
- Securely destroy sensitive files, such as tax documents, with McAfee® Shredder™
Wi-Fi Protection
- Two-Way Firewall system monitors and stops traffic in and out of your PC trying to connect to suspicious servers and known Botnets
Web Protection
- Helps you make smarter decisions about what you click, and protects you from malicious downloads
Network Manager
- Monitor your home Wi-Fi network even when you’re not home
- Blocks unknown devices from accessing your Wi-Fi
- Prevents others from eavesdropping on your internet usage
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Reviews for McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2017
McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2017
Intel Security already has other versions of its McAfee Antivirus Plus. As such, the 2017 version aims at delivering a better performance as both a security suite and an antivirus. In testing this security giveaway, I had two main factors in mind that I needed to evaluate to confirm whether this version is better than its predecessor. The factors entailed its malware detection and protection, and its resource usage. Here is my review on this antivirus.
Overview
Right off the bat, you will note that McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2017 offers a decent collection of features with the intention of protecting your system from a host of attacks. These features include privacy protection, firewall, antivirus, web protection, and WiFi network monitor. Clearly, the collection of the mentioned features makes this package both a security suite and an antivirus.
Pros
Improved Malware Protection
In a bid to improve from its earlier version, this package comes with a new product called Real Protect. Thanks to this product, McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2017 can detect zero-day malware without impacting on the performance of your system. This antivirus manages to do so through its behavior-based approach in detecting unknown and suspicious program. Real protect gathers the behavior data of the suspicious program, sends it to the cloud, and acts appropriately based on the feedback from the cloud component.
User Friendly Firewall Protection
While using this program, I noted that I had minimal interaction with the Firewall settings. That was the case because McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2017 now allows network access by programs that are classified as safe. On the other hand, the program goes ahead and blocks malicious programs that seem to abuse the given network permissions. Unlike before, you will have minimal interaction with firewall configuration settings.
Impressive Compatibility
In this case, I was running this antivirus on my PC. However, you can also do so on Android, iOS, and macOS devices. Further, you subscription can cover multiple devices that you own. To enjoy this multiple device protection using one subscription package, it is important to ensure each installation is tied to the same by using the appropriate installer download link. After configuring your devices, you can monitor all the computers from the My Home Network Panel.
Con
Inferior to Other Security Suites
Thanks to available benchmarks and independent labs, you can know how an antivirus compares to its counterparts. Having said that, it was disappointing to note that McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2017 still scores lower than both Kaspersky and Bitdefender regarding protection.
Verdict
The poor rating of McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2017’s ability to give reliable protection is a major consideration before you install this package. Despite slight improvements on how the program delivers its protection, it still lags behind other program in the antivirus field. However, this antivirus’ protection for multiple devices under one subscription earns it some notable points.
Goodies “McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2016”
1. Warns when the file is sent to quarantine
2. Do not distract from the work on the laptop (RAM 2GB) with “Windows7”
3. Small consumes resources (WEB-browsers at times consume more, especially “Google Chrome”).
4. Used in the banking environment
Cons, yet did not find.
P.S. On the “WindowsXP” use “AvastFree”
McAfeeAntivirusPlus 2016
McAfee is a big name in the antivirus and malware protection business. They have developed a simple but reliable approach to protecting your PC from malware and corrupted web sites. As it is the case with any antivirus I test, I run it through a couple of benchmarks, my favorite being ICSA Labs before giving it a final hands-on testing buff.
Here is what I found out.
At a Glance
McAfee AntiVirus Plus uses a three-tier protection plan. Firs there is a digital signature matching engine that compares new files to known infectious agent. Then there is behavioral monitoring of unknown software. The last and most innovative tier is the McAfee Global Threat Intelligence network that uses millions of computers running McAfee to identify new threats and update its malware database.
Pros
Simple and Practical User Interface
McAfee stuck to its traditional uncluttered and reliable user interface when designing McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2016. The interface is clear and simple letting you manage all the devices in your account or run quick scans at the click of a button. This earns it a high usability score that is great news to new users.
ICSA Lab Tests and Hands-On Testing
The ICSA Lab Test results are quite impressive. They way above the average meaning that it will handle most of the daily threats.
On my test PC, McAfee AntiVirus Plus 2016 caught almost 85 percent of the malware I threw at it. The blocking chart did much better by detecting 90 percent of the malware putting it in the same score range as veteran Kaspersky.
Additional Protection Features
Apart from just fighting malware, this antivirus will protect you from internet prevalent attacks and exploits like phishing or the risk of browsing infected websites. Combine this with the robust but simple firewall though not the best, is quite capable at defending intrusion attacks and you get the perfect free cocktail for your personal PC
Cons
A bit heavy on the system
McAfee is consumes a good share of resources. It will wear down a system with little or no CPU or RAM to spare.
No so good at malware detection
The malware detection score isn’t satisfactory. I don’t like living with the fact that almost 2 in every 10 malware attacks I get will make it through my defenses.
Verdict
It might not be the best at catching and removing malware but it is a perfect bargain if you want to deploy it on many PCs as one license will work on countless computers.
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