McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 - 3 Users

List Price: $89.99 Discount Price: $1.79

Features:

• Provides coverage for three computers
• Automatically blocks, cleans, and removes viruses and spyware so you can surf the Web the safely
• Protects and conceals your computer from hackers so you can connect to the Internet safely
• Parental controls allow you to filter offensive content, pictures, and Web sites to help keep your children safe when online
• The simple but powerful automated backup can restore photos, music, videos and other important files

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Customer Reviews:

Back to using the good ol' McAfee! [Posted on 2007-07-02]
I am a no-nonsense consumer, and I don't work for Norton, McAfee, or any of the virus-scanner companies, so here are some unbiased facts about the software.

Overall, I am very please with the software. I tried out the trial version on my slowest computer, and I liked it, so I bought the full, 3-user, version, from [...].

Although I did not have any problems downloading and installing the trial version on the Windows 2000 computers, I had to download and install MSXML versions 3, then 4, from the microsoft website to get the download to sucessfully complete and start the installation process on the Windows XP computers.

Once installed on the computers, when I opened up the SecurityCenter, the software's control panel, on each of the computers to customize the installations, I was pleased to find that the default settings were already thoughtfully set by McAfee. The only exception was with the parental control, which was enabled initially. However, it was easy to turn off.

The SecurityCenter was a bit on the slow-side to configure, however, it was not bothersome, since configuring the software was only one of those rare-occasion, typically-done-only-on-install-type, computer tasks. On each of the computers, the SecurityCenter was only slow by itself and did not seem to effect the performance of the rest of the system.

The software package that I downloaded came with a system maintenance feature, called QuickClean. I initially used it skeptically, as with any of the automatic cleaning software I had used in the past, but the QuickClean actually worked. It went through the Windows registry and user-specified folders rather comprehensively. I had noticible performance improvements on most of the computers after running the QuickClean feature. One of the computers, a laptop, had always run hot, since I bought it. It originally came with N****n. I got rid of N****n, when I could not work with the laptop anymore because of it locking up due to heat-issues. After installing McAfee, and running QuickClean, I did not know exactly what the software did, but not only did the laptop run faster, its cooling fans actually rested every now and then because it was no longer running super hot.

There are other details, which I found very satisfying with the software, but mentioning them might end up turning this "brief" customer review into a high-school report. :-)

Buyer beware [Posted on 2007-07-03]
Buyer beware.

I installed Internet Security yesterday and found that emails from eFax are automatically being deleted from Outlook and I can't find them any more. I am an efax customer and these are important emails. So I tried contacting customer service for help. McAfee's customer service is really really bad. Unless you want to pay $2.95/min, the only way to get help is via IM. And IM hold times are north of 15 minutes. The one time I did connect with customer service on IM, the connection disappeared after the initial "hello how can I help you".

So what am I going to do? I'm going to get a security package from someone else first thing tomorrow, uninstall McAfee and live with the fact that some of my email has been deleted. Of course this is the last McAfee product I'll ever buy.

Easy to set up [Posted on 2007-07-09]
Extremely pleased with the ease of set up and compatibility with wireless network at work, home and on the road. A little time and effort in being certain of your actions during set-up reaps big rewards when using. I bought three new computers, a laptop and two desktops that this softwarwe was installed on. There have been no glitches or complaints in the first 30 days of use including a 3000 mile trip with the laptop accessing many different wirreless connections. I highly recommend the McAfee Internet Suite for PC protection.

15 Days [Posted on 2007-08-28]
I'm giving this item 3 stars since that seems to be a "medium" rating. In actual fact I didn't even open the box. When I ordered it from Amazon the price was $49.99 less a $45 rebate which would bring the final price to $4.99. Not bad. HOWEVER, when I read the fine print on the rebate sticker on the box (thankfully before breaking the seal) I discovered that the rebate reqest must be postmarked no more than 15 days from the date on the receipt. Since the date on an Amazon packing slip is the date of the original order it was already too late to submit the rebate. I phoned McAfee customer service and asked if an exception could be made. After being given another number to call the answer was "no." So I returned it. It wound up costing me postage and I'm sure Amazon would have preferred to have a sale rather than a return. I went to a store and bought Norton's equivalent software. After their costing both me and Amazon time and money I at least deprived McAfee of the sale.

Crashed Vista - don't touch it with a barge pole!!! [Posted on 2007-12-08]
Have been with either McAfee or Symantic/Norton for probably 15 years or more. Overall I have had more problems with McAfee, but have had most of them resolved via their IM support (Real person? Get real!!)- it can take a couple of hours as the response times can be incredibly s-l-o-w, but we did get there eventually.
I bought a new PC a couple of months ago which came with a 90 day trial for Symantic, and it expired yesterday. I had an unused copy of McAfee which I had purchased just before my old PC expired, causing me to buy the new one, so I thought that I would install that and save me a trip down the shops and me spending more of my hard earned money.
Once the install started it did warn me that there were known incompatibility issues with Vista, so part of it is my own fault I suppose, but I have seen that warning before with installing other software and had experienced no major problems.
Anyway, once it had completed installation and I double clicked on the desktop icon, the system crashed and started to shut down - it stalled at this point and the hard drive was running continuously. After 5 minutes I got bored and turned the PC off, counted to 10 and then restarted it.
All looked well, until I tried to sign in, when explorer.exe crashed and none of the buttons/icons on the user sign in screen did what they should. Could not get it to start, stop or restart and ended up having to turn the power off. Tried a couple of more times to see if the problems would resolve themselves, but they didn't and so resorted to a system restore - thank goodness for system restore is all I can say!!!
The result is that i will be going back to Symantic as I know that works with my PC

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