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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - McAfee Total Protection 2009 3-User
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List Price: $79.99
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Manufacturer: McAfee
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: McAfee
EAN: 0731944576206
Feature: Enterprise-class Anti-spam--Helps keep your inbox free from unwanted, fraudulent, offensive, and phishing emails
Format: CD-ROM
Label: McAfee
Manufacturer: McAfee
Model: MTP09EMB3RAA
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: McAfee
Release Date: 2008-09-07
Studio: McAfee
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Features
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Enterprise-class Anti-spam--Helps keep your inbox free from unwanted, fraudulent, offensive, and phishing emails
QuickScan--Checks for threats in the areas of your computer that are most often attacked
Network Monitoring--Alerts you when intruders connect to your home network
Age Appropriate Searching--Sets the proper content filtering levels of search engines
Anti-virus/Anti-spyware--Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, and adware
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Editorial Reviews:
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Protect yourself, your computer, your identity and your family with McAfee Total Protection 2009. With the daily emergence of new and more sophisticated Internet threats that could disrupt your digital life, you need more than a simple anti-virus program. You need McAfee Total Protection 2009 - all-you-need, feature-rich, and simple-to-use security software.
Anti-phishing?Alerts you to web sites that may try to steal your identity Identity Protection 2-way Firewall Protection SiteAdvisor?Warns about unsafe web sites SecurityCenter?A security status screen with fully customizable options SystemGuards?Warns when your computer shows specific behaviors that may signal virus, spyware, or hacker activity Stealth Mode?Makes your computer invisible to intruders online Shredder?Removes any trace of confidential files from your computer Parental Controls Data Backup Protection without Interference?Watch movies or play games uninterrupted as McAfee security service intelligently defers tasks, updates, and alerts when you're in full-screen mode Minimum System Requirements Microsoft Windows 2000 (32-bit) with Service Pack 4 (SP4) or higher, XP (32-Bit) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or higher, Vista (32 or 64-bit) 256 MB RAM or higher 800 X 600 or higher resolution 150 MB of available free drive space Internet connection Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later Optional - Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later For up to 3 users
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor Product Support
Comment: I am now cursing myself for not checking Amazon reviews first. As other reviewers have noted, this thing does not work with IE8 Beta installed on Vista. This is frustrating because McAfee website does not talk about this anywhere. Uninstalling IE 8 is another issue which is not to be discussed here. I would not recommend this to anybody. I had figure out myself about the IE 8 issue.
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Summary: McAFee Total Protection 2009
Comment: I have been using McAfee since 2001. Every year the protection is better than the year before.
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Summary: Partially effective "nagware" that does not properly remove Spyware
Comment: When computer users were searching for a term to apply to computer programs that came loaded with viruses, harmful DRM (Digital Rights Management) or other insidious ways of slowing down the user's computer, they eventually settled on "Malware."
Its time to coin a new term for programs like McAfee Total Protection. My complaints against the program are only partially related to its ability to filter out viruses and keep a computer free of junk.
The real issue with this program, and many, many others is that it will constantly steal the users focus by popping up text boxes from the Taskbar in Windows. These can come at ANY time the computer is on. They alert the user to the fact that "McAfee has installed updates," or "It is time to restart the computer" to the neverendingly frustrating "Your subscription is about to expire." These boxes can and will pop up while immersed in a full screen computer game, at times causing it to crash. They will pop up when you are working on editing digital photos, or watching a movie, or anything else that requires your full attention.
The term "nagware," came to mind, and maybe it will stick. Feel free to put your suggestions in the comments section of this review.
I understand why they do this. It is intended for novice computer owners who need to be reminded of all of these things, and who don't consider having their 'focus' (the primary task the computer user is working on. For example, as I write this review, it is my primary focus) stolen as EXTREMELY frustrating. That wouldn't even be a big deal, except that McAfee in their infinite wisdom has provided no remedy for the power user. We cannot turn off these irritating messages. They come regardless of my desire to see them or not.
They are amazingly irritating, especially if they disrupt something immersive, like a computer game or movie. Imagine: you are watching your new blue-ray of "The Dark Knight," and just as Batman is about to dispense with the Joker, a text box pops up with the message "McAfee has finished installing updates" in a gray box in the corner of the screen. Unacceptable in the first place, and even more so because you CANNOT TURN THIS FEATURE OFF! This gets unbearable when your subscription is a few months from expiring, and alerts informing you of that pop up literally every time you use the computer. Also, they don't just leave after they pop up, the user is required to click 'ok.' You cannot permanently disable these messages.
As a virus scanner, McAfee works relatively well. It will scan your system for viruses, and if your definitions are up-to-date, find them some of the time. However, it is pretty strange that after making virus software for so many years, they still cannot provide a reasonably well working Spyware hunter that is anywhere near as good as the free version of "Ad-Aware" offered by Lavasoft, or the retail version of "Spybot Search and Destroy."
Another major complaint is the sheer size of the system resource footprint that McAfee total protection takes up. If you have an older computer, less than 2gb of ram (4gb with Vista), this program will create a very noticeable slowdown in your computer's performance. Comparing to how it runs on my wife's laptop with 4gb of ram vs. some of the computers at my work with only 1.5gb, the older work computers are drastically slowed down by McAfee, while my wife's laptop with its 4gb of ram is not really affected. (I do not use this program on my computer for the reasons that I've laid out above).
In concussion, if you don't care about 1. Annoying pop ups that steal your focus and cannot be disabled, 2. Very limited spyware removal and 3. Slow and poorly written code that uses a large portion of system resources, you MIGHT consider buying this software.
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Summary: Issues with McAfee
Comment: I had McAfee before and bought this for renewal.Few issues that I have noted so far are
1.It keeps popping up a message asking to activate and even though I try to activate it does not activate.
2.Recently there was a trojan attack on my computer and McAfee did not even detect the virus leave alone repairing it. I downloaded tools from McAfee and that too was not of any help.Then I downloaded MalwareBytes and that rectified the issue.
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Summary: AOL 9.1 incompatibility issues
Comment: AOL 9.1 users beware. There is a compatibility issue between AOL 9.1 and the McAfee Total Protection 2009 and you would not be able to run AOL 9.1 after installing this program. I use McAfee total protection 2008 and had no problem with the older version. The problem was related to the SystemGuard services in the McAfee program. You could disable this service and AOL 9.1 would run. But then you are not getting the full protection for your PC. I contacted on-line support and they recommended to add the AOL IP address to the trusted network. This workaround does not work neither.
The only workaround that seems to work is to go back to AOL 9.0 which I verified with no problem. I do not expect either AOL or McAfee are coming up with a fix for this problem in the near-future.
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