McAfee VirusScan Plus 2007
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Software Reviews of McAfee VirusScan Plus 2007
Customer Review: McAfee has gone from bad to worse
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had McAfee VirusScan for more years than I remember. After the last 'upgrade' I started having problems. The most annoying was being told by McAfee Security Center that my computer was not properly protected. This happened every few weeks. The reason was that the software was unable to 'verify your subscription'. When I clicked the link to verify the subscription, McAfee informed me that an error had occurred and that I should uninstall and reinstall the software. The online forum on the McAfee website has complaints from lots of consumers with the same problem. McAfee's best advice was to uninstall another manufacturer's firewall because it is incompatible with the latest release of VirusScan. Here is a direct quote from an online chat session I had with one of McAfee's Technical Support "I would like to inform you that McAfee products conflict with any other third party software, that is why you are receiving this error."
So, if you want to use a firewall or anti-spyware or ... from another manufacturer, look elsewhere for your anti-virus software. My response was to uninstall the software that is unable to work with the other software I choose to use; McAfee no longer resides on my hard drive.
Customer Review: Slows your pc down a lot
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't recommend this antivirus after using it 2 months. It slows down bigtime everything you do on the pc. The scans come on when you start up the pc and they take over 2 hours to complete. Trying to work while the scan is running is so irritating. I do have dial up but even my friend who has high speed has experienced a lot of slow down too with this same software. Registery change popups are annoying. Even when a scan is not running this software has slowed the pc. A neighbor tried to install this same product and had major problems, ended up uninstalling what little installed.Customer Review: It used to be good
Summary: 1 Stars
I never had any trouble installing Virus Scan in years past, but it was a nightmare this year. Update icon remained running in system tray, tried the McAfee fix for it, and it froze my system. Wouldn't install the virus scan portion of the software until Lavasoft AdAware was uninstalled, which I did, but it still identified AdAware on the system and would not install. Got some online advice from a technician (they charge for a telephone call), tried to edit my computer's registry per instructions, program stopped responding. After several frustrating hours, a couple of complete McAfee uninstalls and system restores, and numerous restarts, I threw up my hands. I'm taking it back.
Customer Review: Will not detect Keyloggers "By Design"
Summary: 1 Stars
"...McAfee(R) AVERT recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information..." By design, McAfee will not remove or detect keyloggers. This has been going on since at lease 2005. I'm frightened. How about you? McAfee was the best. I'm so bummed at their stance to do nothing to protect peoples bank acount numbers and passwords. I just don't get it.Customer Review: This software is a joke
Summary: 1 Stars
I have used McAfee for years. I used to like knowing it was doing its job behind the scenes without being too intrusive. Not anymore. Everytime I would turn on my PC, it was downloading updates and wanting me to reboot. Just surfing the web I would get all these messages about registry changes. To disable it, you used to be able to rick click on the icon in the system tray and select disable. Not anymore. If you try to turn off features so you don't constantly get messages (i.e. the firewall piece), then it keeps telling you your computer is not protected. I've had to deal with viruses that were less of a pain than this software.
I uninstalled it and now use Windows OneCare which is a lot less intrusive. Even though I can usually find deals to get the updated version of McAfee for free, I will pass in the future. Even for free this software is not worth the aggravation. Use something else.