McAfee Total Protection by Dave

I’ve used a lot of anti-virus through the years but I keep coming back to McAfee. Honestly no virus protection is perfect, they each have their advantages, but the depth of McAfee’s product just outstrips the others in the end. At the end of the day being able to afford the biggest anti-virus teams gives them a leg up on the competition. You simply get your alerts faster, and if you get into trouble, they can get you out. My Dad once fell for a Malware site and a McAfee tech spent three hours on the phone with him undoing the damage. You can’t beat that kind of support.

It used to be you could say a lot about interfaces, but frankly all the major vendors have done a good job of improving their interface and I don’t have any complaints about any of them. McAfee is no exception: the interface is easy to use for a novice but there are lots of nobs in there for experts to play with.

One future selling point: now that Intel owns McAfee they will be enabling special security features that use Intel hardware. This is something that was never possible before, because hardware vendors didn’t want to give software that low-level control, and software vendors didn’t want to share their code. Now that it’s all under one roof, the capabilities look to be amazing.