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Summary: Garbage, just garbage!
Review: McAfee must like losing customers who put down their hard earned cash buying their products. After all, they've burned so many of us! Perhaps this is their version of a financial "Wham, bam, thank you ma'am?"While I could go into a plethora of gory details as to how their software and lack of meaningful support wasted many hours of my time, patience, and money, I will simply say that after exhausting every other possibility as to what could be causing my Hotmail and Microsoft Office Update problems (which were bizarre, to say the least) were all attributed to this piece of garbage from McAfee - Internet Security Suite 2004. After removing this Typhoid Mary from both my new computers, all my other programs worked perfectly. Shame on you McAfee, you've lost the trust of many of your former customers who've now taken their business elsewhere.
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Summary: A NIGHTMARE!!
Review: I should have read your reveiws first! I had an older version of McAfee on my computer so decided to upgrade and download through their website. Also purchased a back-up CD to be sent to me. Virus Scan portion of the suite would not download. So I decided to uninstall the entire suite. What a disaster...took me two days to correct my registry. Couldn't get help from McAfee so I was on my own to figure out how to keep my system from crashing. Finally found a Microsoft site that told me my problem was trying to install and uninstall McAfee...also told me how to reconfigure my system. I requested a refund only to find out they won't refund the $11.95 for the back-up disk. They also made an error on my order and my credit card was billed twice. Am still trying to correct that. AVOID MCAFEE AT ALL COSTS!!!!
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Summary: They Borrowed the Mc From McDonald's for this McSoftware
Review: One wonders who is running the show at Network Associates' McAfee division. I recently bought the boxed version of this software. In the past I had been a Norton fan, but their programs became increasingly intrusive resource hogs. I decided to try the top competitor's product. With rebates, it was cheap. Installing the software was easy enough. I left off Spamkiller because Outlook 2003 has a pretty good anti-spam filter built in. After initial tweaking, everything seemed fine. The next morning, my wife tried to send an e-mail with an attachment. For the first time, Outlook couldn't do it. It turns out this is a widely recognized problem with the McAfee software. Their online FAQ's direct you to disable the virus scanning software's e-mail scanning component, which you have to do every time you restart your machine. It requires you to go into the Task Manager (in Win XP Home in my case) and end a particular process. Their technicians were not able to offer me any more advice than that. Great, so you have a virus scanning program that doesn't handle e-mail. I could live with that. The solution worked . . . for awhile anyway. About a week later, that fix no longer worked. McAfee's software was preventing not only outgoing messages with attachments, but it was preventing us from sending or receiving any e-mail whatsoever. Tech support is thick as a brick. You tell them what you've done to try to correct your problem, what your configuration is, etc., at the beginning of the call, yet they tell you to do what you've already told them you've done. Frustrating. (And if you call them on the telephone, you get to pay for the privilege.) My own fix is to shut down all McAfee products on the machine when I want to check e-mail. Now that is a pain in the rear, but it works. But what is the point of having a firewall and virus scanning software that won't work when you're hooked up to your e-mail server? This problem is widespread. How did McAfee miss it? Are they selling software and letting the public do the beta testing for them? Was it willful ignorance? All I can say is that I will not be purchasing another of their products knowingly. In short, this is a garbage suite. Keep it off of your machine unless you're fond of using up disk drive space to store defective code.
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Summary: Very disappointed
Review: If you don't want to access Google or check your e-mail, then this is what you want. Hint: Use the custom install and forget the spamkiller and the privacy service if you want Google and Outlook Express to work. It can't find the server!
The virus scan and the firewall are all you need. The rest is a waste of time and money.
I'm going back to Norton next year, maybe sooner.
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Summary: JUNK-JUNK-JUNK!!!!
Review: Don't waste your money.
1. Slows internet connection to a crawel.
2. No support
3. Disables mouse and keyboard optional menus
4. Virtually useless until you disable everything.
5. The worst virus software ever written
6. I just pray that the uninstaller works better than the software.
7. Oh, No, the uninstaller is CRAP to. Prepare to format your drive and spend the next few days installing everything all over again!
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Summary: You're Their Bug Tester
Review: Go to http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewforum.php?f=43 to see all the problems that come with this software. I thought I had it bad with being blocked from connecting to internet but there more serious problems being reported there. The problems with this software:
-- No internet access
-- Bad tech support and costly. I honestly think that is how they make their money by making poor quality products.
-- Can't send emails with attachments
-- CPU resource hog
-- I once ran a test a eicar.org and virussan didn't intercept it letting me know you can't always trust the resident scanner to be functioning
-- Horrible updating mechanism. Updates don't take place within the program, have to go to a website
-- Firewall program refreshes like a webpage meaning no real-time system information
-- Firewall doesn't have advanced configuration settings
-- Anti-virus doesn't have advanced configuration settings
-- Ad-blocker doesn't have advanced configuration settings
-- Doesn't clean up after itself after uninstall Pro:
-- Pretty
-- Nice features if they worked Did Mcafee not anticipate these problems when they tested the software? I guess not because you are the bug tester.
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Summary: Worse than any virus ever created!
Review: This product nearly destroyed my computer. Even basic desktop functions disappeared--no icons, no taskbar. Blue screens...name your worst nightmare...this product is it.
McAfee website Help is No Help. I tried the $2.95 a minute route, and couldn't get through.
McAfee's Uninstall program failed mid-way, and wouldn't re-run.
Ultimately, I paid a computer consultant $270 to remove this trash from my computer.
I was testing this crashware because I approve software purchases for my company. Believe me, no McAfee product will EVER be purchased by my company again.
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Summary: Ditto to the other reviews--DON'T buy this defective product
Review: I have never written a review for any other product. I have never had problems and lack of service like this for any other product. The only reason I gave it one star rating is there is no option for zero stars.
I am used to occasional problems from software. I have experienced a bug at times from others. Never anything like this.
I'll save you the time by not repeating all the complaints others have written. Just believe me, they are true.
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Summary: Very poor product at best
Review: Don not buy this product. It is a nightmare to install and maintain. I had to uninstall it twice and then 3 days after finally getting it to work it says the privacy component has expired! Theres no support unless you pay $2.95 a minute or you email them you life history to get email support. I just gave up and crossed McAfee off my product 'buy' list for home and work. I have now reinstalled older alternative product I was using for the past two years that has free virus updates forever and the bets bit....it works! If you use this product the DAT files are only good for one year and it secures you PC so you can't get into it if it screws up. In short don't waste you money on this useless product. Bad move by a greedy McAfee.
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Summary: A Comprehensive, Secure Solution!
Review: This is an excellent program. It does everything from viruses to spyware and adware to parental controls - all in one package. It's great for people who want a one-stop solution. It asks a lot of questions - but that's what you want - software that asks for permission rather than taking over your hard drive. And, it finally got rid of some pesky bugs that I couldn't. By nature, this is not like other types of software - it's airtight - Meaning you have to adapt to it or learn how to tweak it to fit you, or it can't do it's job. So, some flexibility and knowledge on the part of the user is required. I'm not sure why so many other people have problems - but be smart about it. If you're afraid of the program because of the reviews, be sure to install it carefully - shut down all programs that are running (including in the taskbar) and install just one of the four programs at a time. If there is a conflict with a pre-existing program, try uninstalling, rebooting, and reinstall it after McAfee - in other words make a effort isolate problems so you can fix them. And, be smart. Look at the web support if a few things are quirky. The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) answered mine. It took a few seconds to fix it. No big deal. And, seriously consider installing only what you need. If you already have a firewall, for example, then don't install this one. Bottom line is - the software can't think for you, but you can make it work for you with a little forethought. It's a good program. If the installer keeps in mind that it is designed to secure and safeguard your files and should be handled accordingly, they will enjoy the luxury of feeling like they are sitting in a secure vault - just as I do. This is by far a great alternative to shareware, freeware, and Norton.
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