Review by Computerdude1032

If you’ve used McAfee in the past, you probably know the annoyances with it. Constant pop ups telling you about everything, even when it shouldn’t be flagged as dangerous at all. Additionally, this software slows down the computer more than Norton. I have a state of the art computer with a quad core processor, and 8gb ram, and I saw a noticeable performance decrease after installing this software, even on my high end computer. Imagine what it will do to your mid level computer.

I also purposely downloaded some files that I knew contained spyware, adware, and viruses (I’m a computer guru, and know how to remove these manually, so I don’t recommend you doing this yourself). Turns out that McAfee only detected half of them, and was able to remove NONE of them. On the other hand, Norton detected them all and removed them all but 1.

Sure McAfee might be cheaper than some of the alternatives, but I wouldn’t recommend it. I give it 3 stars because some anti virus is better than no antivirus, but I strongly recommend a different program.