McAfee VirusScan 2006 10.0 (Full Product)

Reviewed by: olddave208

Duration of ownership: 4 Years

Strengths: In over 4 years of usage, I have never had a virus on my system. Protection is great, but one does have to keep up with updates. Runs well with zonealarm and spysweeper.

Weaknesses: Software is heavy on system resources. When starting my machine every day one must wait till the software does its update thing, or system hangs could result. Would not use on systems with low ram. On rare occasions software gets confused or files get corrupted requiring uninstalling and reinstalling the software. This problem has occured about 3 times, usually after major upgrades to the program.

Overall Evaluation: I have found the software to work well with my spyware and firewall. If running zonealarm with the full version one must tell software so it knows to turn off the Mcafee firewall. I have little faith in the Mcafee firewall. Scans do take a while to run. My system is about 60,000 files which requires about 1.5 hours to scan. Very few false warnings on viruses. In 4 years I have never had a virus on either of my XP machines. I would recommend to anyone over norton. I have worked on norton protected machines, and could not believe the system intrusion and resources used. One must follow instructions VERY carefully on initial load of software to get a good load. If this software does not run properly, it is usually inexperience of the person that creates problems. I consider support nonexistant, so if you are not computer savvy don't purchase Mcafee.