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Summary: Should rate negative stars... DO NOT BUY THIS
Review: After my husband got a virus on his notebook, I decided to purchase this based on my happiness with McAfee Virus Scan 7.0 and other products from McAfee. Unfortunately, I did not go to my favorite site "amazon.com" to see what the real folks thought of this. That was a critical error.I am an IT professional and my husband is not computer literate beyond the ability to surf the internet. So, with our diverse range of skills, in less that two days, both our our notebooks VERY FULLY SECURE FROM THE INTERNET. Sounds good, ha? Well, if I had fully disconnected both systems from all networks, then I would have achieved the same result: NO COMMO! This software assumes that you are familiar with the names of every single program which accesses email or the internet from your system. If you take the safe route and say "no" to the access since you did not recognize the program, the function is barred from accessing any networked activities. Now, knowing that my old fail-safe of restoring my system to a previous state has always saved my butt in similar situations... I tried to restore to a configuration prior to the Internet Security installation. NOT! Once installed, you are not able to recover your system using "system restore" to get back to fully functioning systems. I reloaded the OS, put back my McAfee Virus Scan and McAfee Clean. By the time I had fixed everything, I went back on the internet to get a refund, but I was at day 32 of post purchase via an internet download... too late to get my money back. So, my advice: DO NOT EVER BUY McAFEE INTERNET SECURITY AND ADVISE YOUR FRIENDS, ACQUAINTANCES, AND STRANGERS ON THE STREET NOT TO EITHER! The same degree of security is achievable for zero dollars by physically disconnecting from the internet.
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Summary: JUST GARBAGE
Review: Ditto all the above negative reviews. I only supplied this review in an attempt to bring the average even lower. There is a long list of problems with this software and nothing good to come with them. You are better off going unprotected in this computer world because the consequences of getting a virus are still less aggravating then trying to get this piece of crap software running smoothly.
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Summary: Awful: Internet Security Suite 6.0
Review: Don't buy this Suite. It'll mess you up big time. McAfee rushed it out. It's very buggy to the point of possible damage to your system. It's worse than any virus, popup or intrusion! I spent 9 hours installing on a vanilla W2000 computer. 2 hours on hold to get tech support, another hour doing runarounds, to no avail. Problem is in 2 modules -- Privacy Service and Spam Killer. You'll get the Blue screen of death when you boot (UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_TRAP_MODE). After many hours, I succeeded installing on another computer only to discover that my POP3 e-mail would not work on either Netscape or Mozilla browser, and I could not surf or receive e-mail until I disabled Privacy Service. I decided this was not the product for me, and tried to ask for refund. After 2 round trips on the phone to The Phillipines and another 2 hours, mostly on hold, I just got disgusted and asked my credit card company to dispute the purchase. I am returning it and surfing to find a better suite.
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Summary: avoid this one
Review: Extremely complicated...... Ineffective..... Made my XP system very unstable......Some pop-ups still get through.....System choked to a crawl while stopping other pop-ups.......Just plain awful. GARBAGE.
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Summary: i e security 5.0 (mc afee)
Review: for those of you that installed the program and your pc is running adversely now,quit crying, and slamming a good product. simply uninstall it or maybe take a closer look at what you thought was an excellant pc.you might try reading some reviews before purchasing. i did. and all the reviews i read put mcafe out in front of norton in every area.so quit bawling and get a better pc or uninstall the quality program."bad bob"
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Summary: Don't get this
Review: Hated it!! I don't have enough room to describe where McAfee went wrong with this. I bought it, thinking that it was a program designed to work in the backgrounds and do basically do it's thing. Not true!! I had to make a decision about almost every little thing. I consider myself to be very computer literate (using one, that is)... but fixing/repairing/troubleshooting one is a whole different ballgame! For someone who doesn't really know what they're doing 'under the hood', this program can be dangerous (for the computer and the user). I switched to Norton Internet Security 2003 and am very happy. It blocks attacks, files spam (as per my direction), notifies me of potential attacks but does what it's supposed to do behind the scenes. It doesn't ask me if I want to do this or that with the Interface of whatever whatever... how should I know? I just want to use the darn computer, not repair it!
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Summary: Stick with Norton
Review: I bought this after my 90 day free trial to Virus Scan and Firewall ended from Dell. I figured it also included the Privacy Service, but shouldn't be that much different than it's component programs. WRONG! It has been an absolute nightmare for the past 2 weeks. Every time you try to go to a website (Yahoo as the most notable example), it keeps popping up windows saying Yahoo is placing a direct cookie on your system, do you wish to allow? Even after selecting to allow direct cookies from the site, and that I recognize the site and not to ask again, I continue to get at least 7-12 more pop-ups asking the exact same question for the site! This happens for most retail sites as well. (Just trying to get to the product page here on Amazon has been a nightmare!) It has also twice since installation said that the Virus Scan files were corrupt and had to be reinstalled, which would not work automatically from the setup program. This program is much more trouble than it is worth. Stick with Norton AntiVirus!
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Summary: Caught Yaha virus, but apparently made PC instable
Review: I bought this off the web when the "Yaha" virus somehow got through my Norton Antivirus and Internet Security suite, because the McAfee site had a "stinger" program to root out the "Yaha" virus. However, since downloading it on my Dell Pentium IV desktop running Windows XP, it has become instable, freezing up. Now, whether this is a McAfee problem, a Microsoft Problem, or a Netscape Problem (I started getting errors indicating Netscape 7.01 problems soon after installing McAfee Internet Security and updating Netscape to 7.01. Who knows where the fault lies, but McAfee seems to be part of the problem. Admittedly, if Windows XP was doing its job right as the operating system, it wouldn't allow this kind of thing, now matter how problematically applications might be coded. That said, the McAfee interface was more user friendly when installing, and made different degrees of access easier than Norton had. It also did appear to catch the Yaha virus when Norton apparently didn't, so it does appear to have some positive features, if only my PC wasn't unstable now.
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Summary: Caught Yaha virus, but apparently made PC instable
Review: I bought this off the web when the "Yaha" virus somehow got through my Norton Antivirus and Internet Security suite, because the McAfee site had a "stinger" program to root out the "Yaha" virus. However, since downloading it on my Dell Pentium IV desktop running Windows XP, it has become instable, freezing up. Now, whether this is a McAfee problem, a Microsoft Problem, or a Netscape Problem (I started getting errors indicating Netscape 7.01 problems soon after installing McAfee Internet Security and updating Netscape to 7.01. Who knows where the fault lies, but McAfee seems to be part of the problem. Admittedly, if Windows XP was doing its job right as the operating system, it wouldn't allow this kind of thing, now matter how problematically applications might be coded. That said, the McAfee interface was more user friendly when installing, and made different degrees of access easier than Norton had. It also did appear to catch the Yaha virus when Norton apparently didn't, so it does appear to have some positive features, if only my PC wasn't unstable now.
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Summary: The WORST piece of software I have ever encountered
Review: I can't say enough bad things about my experience with this software. (If you decide to try it be sure to backup your system before starting - you'll need it.) The installation software will probably crash, leaving you in a half-installed limbo. You will be able to get the software installed but this is only the beginning of your problems. You will not be able to receive email without manually fixing a conflict between the Privacy Service and Virus Scan components. You will have to disable the popup blocker if you want to follow links in email from some popular mailing lists like ZDNet. Compuserve now greets me with six error messages before completing login. Everything is slower with ISS 6.0 - either get used to it or be prepared to disable much of the functionality you paid for. Finally, you won't be able to play Microsoft Solitaire without killing a process or two. Good luck trying to uninstall the software; there doesn't seem to be either a program or instructions to help you do it. You can call them for $2.95 a minute, but given the number of problems you're likely to have you will be paying a fortune only to end up (at best) with a substandard product and vague promises of fixes. I suspect that customer support is the true source of their profit on this product. AVOID THIS PRODUCT!
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