McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008

A really good product. McAfee excels in the antivirus market. This product offers six in one solution, not only will it look after the PC's security needs. It will do things like defrag your hard disk. Which is required I do it once every three months to keep the hard disk in tip top shape. This product has features that you won't find with Norton. Some of the ones I like. No more messages from security management when I am playing full screen movies or videos. Also this product checks Yahoo messenger and similar product from others like AOL. Norton doesn't do this. Also there is a virtual assistant, this comes in the shape of ...  Read the complete review

As a long time user of ZoneAlarm I was reluctant to try anything else as I had never had any problems with ZoneAlarm until Vista came along and then the clashes started. So, having had McAfee Virus Scan Plus 2008 recommended to me I decided to give it a try and I am fairly happy that I did. The package is reasonably priced for what it is and the whole installation process is easy to follow and complete, even for complete beginners. The whole set up takes a matter of 5 - 10 minutes, not including the first full system scan and you feel like you are up and running securely after just 1 reboot. Once installed and you are set up, you are presented with ...  Read the complete review

Mcafee Virusscan Plus 2008 is a good improvement on earlier versions of the product.It continues to use "the bootstrap method" of downloading code to your pc and then installing it module by module.The security centre is the first thing that is downloaded and modules are added to it depending on what you have purchased. Uninstall is only via the control panel but unlike norton that leaves files and registry entries scattered everywhere it was a nice surprise that after uninstalling and a reboot the suite left no evidence of it ever having been there which is a great improvement on earlier versions. The interface is crisp and well laid out, offering ...  Read the complete review

First excuse me for writing a lengthy review, but there are a lot of ground to cover. For those who like the short version, with less information is here: Norton slowed my DSL connection by a third party. I spent a day with Verizon, could not understand why all my other machines on the network received 756k, which has a maximum of only 4 or 500. Norton removed, and bingo, instant 756k. AVG Free Edition is beautiful but has a lot of time to start, while updates on every boot, unless you disable this option, then sends your Outlook e-mail with a message that your antivirus is not to date, and this message could be dangerous or something. Zone Alarm used to be the best, now ...  Read the complete review

Mcafee have been out and about now for years, the package it's self is a very good one compared to most of the market. However although it does it's job, its very expensive compared to the mass of other packages available on the market and slows your machine down that much that you have to consider ditching it. I think that the virus scan is one of the best for definition updates as some dont bother updating quite as often as mcafee, they are also working on constantly improving their scanning. The spyware scan I wouldnt really recommend installing though as there is others out there that are not quite so memory intensive and are free e.g adware se. The firewall ...  Read the complete review