 Not good and Getting worse with every release. Strengths: None that I could see compared to competitors out there.
Weaknesses: 1. Makes the PC slow.
2. Difficult to judge what it is doing, why, or how to control its actions.
3. Difficult to uninstall
Summary: I bought this to mainly upgrade outdated antivirus and was taken aback by several issues.
The install was fine but then I started to notice that my previous norton was not fully uninstalled and was also running - so I had to wade through several websites and google to figure how to completely delete the old stuff.
The first thing I noticed after the new McAfee install was the startup time of PC was considerably slower - I tried to look into several places including registry for startup to see what was taking the time but simply could not and found from google that this was universally true for not only McAfee but all later versions of anti-virus software.
Basically it looks like these anti-virus software have grown into huge monsters which are starting to control the rest of the pc in the name of security to the point of hindering the pc.
Once the system started I faced several issues with software that was already working - from chat programs to vpn and so decided to uninstall this mcafee and see what happens and there also I got into problems on how to completely uninstall mcafee and had to see various google sites to get back to stable state. Once it was fully removed my system performance was back to better state
but I was left without antivirus - so I installed the free and basic windows defender and that seems to suffice for me so far.
I did not call their tech support as I felt a simple software such as this was way out of line if it cannot do simple stuff it is meant to do.
It is a shame that anti-virus software should reach a state where break the system more than the virus themselves!
It is probably not worth to pay for these anymore until the anti-virus makers start to get a grip to not hinder the system with their software.
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