Review by FirePepper Red

I have used several different anti-virus programs over the years including previous McAfee products. My first impression while installing the program was one of frustration as it simply would not install. I tried this on 2 separate computer running Windows XP and on both systems the installation failed after about 5 minutes. I tried to uninstall some programs and then re-install this but it simply would not work. I finally tried to install this on a Windows Vista micro laptop that I have and this time the installation was successful. Though most anti-virus products do use a fair amount of system resources, the McAfee 2012 seemed to noticeably reduce my computer’s speed. I use freemeter and noticed that it was heavy on the Ram usage and also created a lot of unnecessary CPU cycles. The program may be ok for some of the newer multicore processors but on my older single core laptop this was a resource hog and I was forced to uninstall and go back to AVG anti-virus.

*** Positive Points Include: nn- 3 user license and an excellent pricen- great protectionnn Negative Points Include: ***nn- Heavy use of system resourcesn- Would not install on 2 of my Windows XP machinesnnOverall: McAfee is well known and makes a decent anti-virus but the installation issues and high resource use make it an average product.