McAfee Internet Security 2012, 1 PC, 12 month Subscription (PC)

Product Details

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• ASIN: B005CV96Y8
• Release Date: 23 Sep 2011
  

By : McAfee
Price : £14.99

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
How would you live without your computer? It's how you get the news, share with friends, schedule your life, shop, and bank online. McAfee helps keep your PC safe from viruses, Trojans, spyware, and malware it might pick up from email, USB sticks, removable hard drives, or simply browsing online. With McAfee security software working in real time, security is there when you need it, invisible when you don't.
The most effective protection against virus and online threats
Updated 2012 Functions

Unwanted email is more than a nuisance that wastes your time. Spam introduces offensive and obnoxious content, plus attachments and links may expose you to viruses and worms. McAfee uses the most advanced spam filters, active analysis, and global threat research to screen out unwanted email.
You would like your kids to be able to research, play, and socialize online. Yet it can be hard to know which specific sites to trust. McAfee parental controls allow you to set rules based on age, categories, and your preferences so your kids can use the Internet safely. These parental controls let you filter your children's web access, limit online time, and track their usage.
We invest in performance to help you enjoy your digital life to the limit—surfing, shopping, and socialising with minimal interruptions.
Whether you face loss, theft, or natural disaster, when you least expect it, you may find your most treasured digital files have disappeared. Keep your essential family photos, tax records, and music safe by backing them up to password-protected, encrypted online storage. Your priceless photos and files will be ready and waiting, even when your PC isn't.
Features:

• New: McAfee now blocks stealthy botnet software by denying its attempts to connect your PC to web addresses which are dubious
• New: McAfee scans portable storage devices to prevent malicious codes getting into your network
• New: McAfee’s pre-install scan removes infections as our software installs
• Relentless security software scans and blocks dangerous emails, risky web content, and online threats like viruses, Trojans, spyware, and rootkits
• McAfee Active Protection™ immediately looks at suspicious material and determines its risk to help keep your computer secure
• Two-way firewall – prevents malicious software from gaining access to your PC
• Color-coded icons next to your search results let you know before you click which sites are safe
• Permanently destroy sensitive files to be sure they cannot be retrieved by other users when you donate, recycle, lend or upgrade your PC
• Unused applications, cached browser files, and other junk slow down your PC. McAfee QuickClean™ software removes the clutter so your computer can keep up with your digital life

About McAfee
McAfee is one of the world’s leading suppliers of security software and systems management solutions. McAfee develops computer security solutions, detecting and blocking unauthorised access to networks and is relentlessly focused on protecting computer systems from the latest threats. All McAfee products are supported by the Anti-Virus–Research Organisation, McAfee Labs, which is protecting McAfee customers from emerging and complex threats.
System Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or higher (32-bit)
• Windows Vista SP1 or higher (32- and 64-bit)
• Windows 7 incl. SP1 (32- and 64-bit)
• 512 MB RAM for XP
• 1 GB RAM for Vista and Windows 7
• 500 MB free drive space
• 1 GHz processor

Internet connection

• High-speed connection recommended

Supported Browsers for Anti-phishing

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and higher
• Firefox 3.5 and higher
• Google Chrome

Supported Email Programs

• POP3—Microsoft Windows Mail
• Microsoft Outlook Express
• Outlook
• Eudora
• Netscape
• IncrediMail
• Thunderbird
• MAPI—Outlook
• Web – MSN/Hotmail, or email account with POP3 access

Required for Anti-spam Toolbar

• Windows Mail or Outlook
• Express 6.0+
• Outlook XP+
• Thunderbird 1.5+
• McAfee Anti-spam also supports other POP3 email clients (without SSL) and web accounts

 

McAfee Internet Security 2012, 1 PC, 12 month Subscription (PC)

 

Customer Reviews

Well packaged and arrived ahead of scheduled date.
Although a CD was included this was a bit pointless as latest version had to be downloaded from web. This was an easy exercise.
One issue is that when installing it looks for a previous version and if it finds one it de-installs it before proceeding to install new version.
However it doesn't do a good job at clearing odd connected files, one being subscription details. The result is that the new version expires within a couple of weeks. McAfee support were very good at providing a fix,
Best way is to de-install manually the old version then run McAfee Cleanup program to clear out any remaining files.
Install as a new version and it works fine.

The McAfee Internet Security 2012 package was tested on a PC with the following specification:
Dell XPS 8300
Intel Core i5-2310 CPU 2.90 GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Windows 7 Professional
64-bit Operating System
Iiyama 22" dual screen monitors
I received my new system a couple of weeks ago with the McAfee Internet Security package already installed. I normally use AVG but seeing as McAfee was already loaded I thought I would give it a go and compare it to my normal anti virus, firewall and security package.
Regular scans of your system are easy to set up. You can run a quick scan then and there if you have any concerns about your system. You can set it up to scan items in real-time which means that as you open files or plug in a device it will instantly scan to check that there are no threats. You can also set up scheduled scans that can run at regular intervals, perhaps each night at a certain time or once a week.
No matter what you choose, scanning your system will slow down whatever else you are doing, sometimes to the extent that you can't work productively until the scan has finished.
I have real-time scanning switched on as I tend to open a lot of attachments. Much as I like the added security of being able to do this, the time that it takes can be frustrating - it seems to take longer than AVG ever did to complete the same action. I have also found that if I try to do other things such as open another document or application whilst it is scanning I have noticed that I seem to be experiencing a lot more crashes within applications which delays things even further.
I tend to plug in and unplug my Flip video camera, microphone and speakers a number of times throughout the day. Again, because of the real-time scanning every single time I plug in a device, up pops a window telling me that it wants to scan the device before I can use it. Yes, I can refuse the scan and close the Window down but it is just an extra thing to do.
Thus although I like the security of knowing attachments are being scanned I do feel that I am trading off that extra security for a loss of my own time - again something that I haven't experienced with AVG.
When running the scheduled scans McAfee keeps telling me that it has found suspect files on my system. However, some of these files have been installed for years, they are not anything sinister and have never caused me a problem. But McAfee highlights them in red every time and wants to remove them - but at least it does give me the option to ignore its suggestions - I haven't experienced it taking decisions into its own hands and just deleting files without permission.
The web and email protection seems to be working well and I have noticed that spam messages are being more accurately identified and being relegated to my spam box rather than clogging up my inbox - a definite plus.
Trying to network two machines together (both with McAfee installed) was a frustrating experience. Two Windows 7 professional machines connected over a standard network could not see each other. After three hours of trying many different ideas and solutions, I found out that the McAfee firewall was blocking both ends of the connection on each machine. After a lot of research I found that I had to open two ports on the McAfee firewall on each machine namely 3540 and 3587 as well as Microsoft Directory Server and Windows File Sharing. Once these were set both machines could at last see each other and share files.
Overall, this seems a fairly good package that does exactly what it is supposed to do, i.e. keep my system safe and protected. But, somehow I don't feel that it lives up to AVG with which I am more familiar. As I have a year's subscription I will keep with this package a little longer but I suspect I will soon be changing back

 

McAfee Internet Security 2012, 1 PC, 12 month Subscription (PC)