Review by Medianvalued

I have to confess that I was biased against McAfee even before I received my free copy. Why? Well just about every new PC comes with a free 1 month trial subscription to McAfee. In my experience, uninstalling McAfee was always unnecessarily complicated (this from a guy who majored in computer science and assembled his own PCs) - it was almost as if you were expected to give up on installing and just pay them the money. So I got this free copy which is just an empty envelope with a sign-up code. Uninstalled Norton 360 (which I have happily used for many years) and tried to install McAfee. I did not like the process. I did not like giving them my credit card info (wasn’t this a free product) and other stuff like my blood type. I finally got annoyed and said screw it - I have visions of having a nightmare uninstallation process - even worse than the trouble I have uninstalling on a new PC. This may be the world’s best virus (etc) software and you do get to install it on unlimited* (gotta love the *) PCs, tablets, commodes and smartphones but I really don’t like the explicitly hostile interface they have with me, the customer. I don’t like painful installation and uninstallation processes. And I don’t like the fact that it is reportedly a resource hog. (Seriously, it’s bad enough that Microsoft already gives us multiple layers of inefficiency with Windows and Office - now McAfee wants to slow things down further.) I would have given this product one star - but I suppose that would be unfair as I never finished the hostile installation process.