• Pros Protection for every Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS device in your household. Good scores in hands-on tests. Perfect score in antiphishing test. Includes new ransomware protection and PC Boost, plus many bonus features. • Cons Ransom Guard missed one hand-modified ransomware sample. Our verdict: McAfee is the most expensive product based on the features it provides. Easy to install and use, McAfee Internet Security for Mac has many of the important features expected from antivirus software, with information that's easy to find and help protect your Mac. PC Boost web speedup works only in Chrome. Mac edition less feature-rich than Windows or Android. Still fewer features for iOS. • Bottom Line A single subscription for McAfee AntiVirus Plus lets you protect every Windows, Android, macOS, and iOS device in your household. Ps2 emulator mac yosemite. It's quite a deal, and the current edition adds some new and useful features. If you've been using computers a long time, you know very well that you need to install protection on all your PCs. But these days, you also need security (antivirus and more) on your Macs, and on your Android and iOS devices. Well, one license for McAfee AntiVirus Plus lets you install McAfee security software on every Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS device in your household. That's very handy! Yes, Windows users get a lot more features than those on other platforms, but it's still quite a deal. That unlimited McAfee license goes for $59.99 per year. Few other companies offer unlimited licenses. The security suite protects all your Windows and Android devices for $34.99 per year, while the more feature-rich Panda Protection Complete goes for $74.99 per year. You pay $99.99 per year for unlimited installations of Total Defense Unlimited Internet Security, which gives you security suite protection for PCs and Android devices and antivirus for Macs. Most other competing antivirus products sell as one-, three-, or five-license subscriptions. For those odd ducks who really, truly want to protect just one PC, McAfee makes a one-license, Windows-only version available for $39.99. It's a surprising offering (for just $20 more, you get unlimited licenses), but my McAfee contacts say they get enough sales to keep offering this limited edition. Getting Started To install McAfee on a Windows computer, you first go online and activate your license key. If you set up automatic renewal during the process, you get a Virus Protection Pledge from McAfee. That means if any malware gets past the antivirus, McAfee experts promise to remotely remediate the problem, a service that normally costs $89.95. In the unlikely event that they can't clear out the malware, the company refunds your purchase price. With that housekeeping out of the way, it's time to download and install the product. The installer took a while, but didn't require hand-holding from me. Once installation is complete, the product shows off what it can do. It offers to run a scan, check for outdated applications, remove tracking cookies, and permanently delete files in your Recycle Bin. It also shows how to contact tech support, in case you're having trouble getting off the ground. With last year's release, McAfee redesigned the user interface for its Windows product line. The new interface has a menu at the top that breaks down product features into five main pages: Home, PC Security, Identity, Privacy, and Account. Down the left side there's a security indicator for your local computer as well as a list of your other protected computers, and a button to extend protection to more devices. This year the macOS edition got the same makeover, so the two desktop editions look very similar. Better Lab Test Results Over the past few years, McAfee's scores from the independent testing labs have had some ups and downs. In the latest batch of results, things are looking up. The researchers at rate antivirus products on how well they protect against malware, how light a touch they have on performance, and how little they interfere with usability by identifying valid programs and websites as malicious. An antivirus can earn six points each for Protection, Performance, and Usability, for a maximum of 18 points. Since the start of 2016, McAfee's total score has ranged from 14.5 to 17, with Protection scores as low as 3.5. This time around it swept the field, all sixes, for a perfect 18 points.
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