McAfee Antivirus free review

McAfee is a major leader in computer protection and the McAfee Antivirus VirusScan 9.0 is their best defense against malicious threats. Some particuliarities of this antivirus are the WormStopper and the ScriptStopper that is set to stop virus spread from one computer to another, however, McAfee Antivirus doesn’t provide automatic message protection or registry startup protection.

McAfee Antivirus - Installation

McAfee Antivirus is easy to install (we tested on Windows XP and Windows Vista), no additional requirements have to be installed. Although the installation time has been recently sped up, it depends on the resources of your computer system.
Using default settings of McAfee Antivirus makes jour job even easier: viruses, worms, Trojans, Java Applets and other software that threaten the security of your system are detected and annihilated. Besides the VirusScan feature, McAfee offers other programs that enhance the rate of successful virus protection: Personal Firewall, Privacy Service and Spamkiller.

McAfee antivirus effectiveness

Recent test have indicated that McAfee Antivirus is remarkably good at detecting viruses. This ability has been acknowledged by West Coast Labs and ICSA; McAfee it has also been granted the VB100% award.

McAfee antivirus updates and features

McAfee antivirus updates automatically and downloads the newest virus definitions from the internet. Like other similar antiviruses, it can be set to update according to a pre-established update schedule, but the user can’t add a lot of tasks to this scheduled scan. We have noticed the ongoing process of protecting the personal and public data contained in the email and email attachment, internet downloading, web browsing. To conclude, we can say that McAfee Antivirus offers efficient protection against spy ware and ad ware.
There is an Antivirus Emergency Response Team at McAfee Antivirus Center whose duty is to monitor all the internet virus related activity so that the user could be best informed on it.
The interesting novelty related to McAfee is represented by two features: QuickScan and SiteAdvisor - these features works very good on Windows Operating Systems - Vista and Windows XP. The former decreases the risk of virus spreading by scanning the most vulnerable and attacked parts of the computer system. A full scan of the complete system is periodically recommended, though. The latter signals the user in case the link he is about to access leads to a malicious site or any type of virus software; it obviously an option that used correctly prevents the infestation of your computer.

McAfee antivirus - technical support

McAfee Antivirus offers email, phone and documented based supports.

McAfee Antivirus - conclusions

To sum up, we can say that this version of McAfee antivirus is very good at detecting and annihilating viruses.