McAfee VirusScan / Firewall Plus 2006 Bundle

List Price: $59.99 Discount Price: $19.99

Features:

• Utility software bundle includes VirusScan and Personal Firewall Plus
• Prevents, detects, blocks, and removes viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware
• Threat-prevention technology prevents identity theft and poor PC performance
• Continuously monitors Internet connection and prevents unwanted traffic
• Easy-to-use protection from hacker-based identity theft; automatic updates

Customer Reviews:

OOPS ! Watch out for this latest version. BAD BAD [Posted on 2006-10-27]
I did the ol' regular online update to my security center and it totally messed up so many things on my home computer. Web surfing has slowed to a crawl and some sites will not load at ALL. Just sits there waiting and waiting. This is a half baked program that takes over your computer and you will spend hours configuring it to just be able to go online and do email at a reasonable pace. Then it reverts back to old settings when you resart and you go thru it all again. Email is slow and several messages just do not get sent at all. It is an extremely frustrating product. It appears to be this most recent version which is either 10 or 11, I'm not sure---sorry, but the point is that I am done with McAfee products because they will not even allow you to go back to the previous version. If you think I am the only one with this problem, do a search---and you will see. I think this is a fairly new phenomenon in the last couple of months or so. I ended up uninstalling the whole thing and going with a free program as a stopgap measure for now. For reference, I run windows XP on that computer.

2006 VirusScan/Firewall Bundle [Posted on 2006-11-03]
Seems to work fairly quietly (good), but tends to slow the startup process. Having used McAfee products in the past, I expect to be fairly satisfied with its performance at keeping viruses off of my computer.

McAfee VirusScan [Posted on 2006-11-04]
Even though I prefer Norton Symantec products, my new laptop already had McAfee on it and needed updating. I decided to stay with McAfee for two reasons: problems in the past switching from McAfee to Symantec and McAfee's cost was lower. Installation was easy, but I'm still getting messages from McAfee telling me that my (original) software subscription had expired.

Good software [Posted on 2006-12-28]
I'm not sure about all the bad reviews. I've used McAfee for years and never had any problems. I bought the bundle recently for $30 with a $30 mail in rebate, so the software was free! I like the user-friendly interface of virus scan and firewall. Everything is there for you and seems to catch all of the bugs (I hope).

What has happened to McAfee? [Posted on 2007-01-05]
I have been a satisfied customer of McAfee VirusScan for several years. However, an update around the middle of 2006 completely fouled up my computer. I took advice from their technical helpline, but this did not cure the problem. I finally resorted to a complete uninstall and replacement with another company. I am not a computer expert, and found it very disconcerting to have my computer disrupted in this manner by a company which is claiming to safeguard my on-line interests. To add insult to injury, my telephoned cancellation of annual renewal was not correctly actioned, resulting in a series of renewal confirmation invoices being e-mailed to me. No good enough, McAfee!

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