
McAfee VirusScan 2006 10.0 (Full Product)
| Performance | Performance: Superior |
| WildList viruses | 100% |
| AV-Test zoo threats | 89% |
| Heuristic detection with one-month-old signatures | 53% |
| Heuristic detection with two-month-old signatures | 34% |
| Scan speed (in seconds) | 242 |
| Outbreak response time: Time it took to release signature updates to new, major malware outbreaks averaged over a period of eight months in 2005 for 16 major outbreaks. | 8 to 10 hours |
| Support and reliability | |
| Telephone support | Yes |
| Toll-free support | Yes |
| Cost of phone support | $3 per minute |
| Weekday support hours | 18 |
| Saturday support hours | 18 |
| E-mail or Web support | Yes |
Pros
Top-notch heuristics
Cons
Phone support costs $3 per minute
McAfee VirusScan 2006
VirusScan 2006 10.0 (Full Product) Review, by Tony Bradley January 25, 2006
McAfee VirusScan 2006 provides solid performance at a reasonable price, but getting help by phone will cost you plenty.
In tests for "The New Virus Fighters," McAfee VirusScan 2006 ranked second overall among the ten products in the group because it performed consistently well without bombing in any particular category. It ranked fourth in overall performance, doing particularly well in our heuristics tests. Here, it ranked second, behind Best Buy winner BitDefender. It ranked third in our scan-speed testing and sixth in detecting the malware in our zoo collection of backdoor programs, bots, and Trojan horses.
The program is simple to navigate, although the main console heavily promotes other McAfee security products--irritating for users who have only (and want only) the VirusScan product. This package's major flaw is that McAfee charges $3 per minute for telephone technical support. (McAfee does offer free around-the-clock Internet chat sessions though.)
Upshot: McAfee VirusScan performance and features are consistently strong, but one 15-minute call to tech support will run you the price of the software itself.
Tony Bradley
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Average User Reviews for McAfee VirusScan 2006 10.0 (Full Product)
- Latest User Reviews 6 reviews
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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: 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.
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Reviewed by: Phenom
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: Blocks Viruses, Trojans, and Spyware (PUP).
Weaknesses: None.
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Reviewed by: PcworldJim
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: super fair piece of software
Weaknesses: not as good as one would hope
Overall: it was fair, but not good.
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Reviewed by: Prevaricator
Duration of ownership: 1 Year
Strengths: None noted.
Weaknesses: Incredibly difficult to get support; could not install properly. Poor interfaces lack necessary information.
Overall: Trying this program was a complete waste of time. After initial installation and download of updates, the program kept telling me that I was ânot protected,â and to click âFixâ to solve the problem. The resulting dialogue box told me I needed to make "responses" but without indication as to âwhatâ or âwhere.â The box boasts of live chat support, but I had to jump through ½ hour of hoops on the web page in order to reach a point that I could activate the chat. Once activated, it took another ½ hour for a tech to respond. The resulting chat indicated to me that the tech was not understanding the problem and could only suggest uninstalling and re-installing the program. I canât tell how well the program works, but Iâm glad I found out quickly that their support is so âbottom rungâ before a real problem occurred. At least now I can get a refund.
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Reviewed by: davel
Duration of ownership: 8 Years
Strengths: McAfee runs a very good library of threats, updated continuously, and updaes are as frequent as needed.
Weaknesses: This software's latest update prevents running pretty much ANY other firewall or spamware program, repeatedly accesses the internet regardless of your settings, and does not ALLOW you to stop it. They have recently made their update LOCKED in Windows, so you either allow it or NOTHING runs! The software makes an incredibly long list of registry entries, all of which must be loaded, slowing all other applications. The recent update runs programs on your cpmputer without permission, causing serious problems. That sounds like a virus itself to me. The company has apparently decided that they cannot compete with others such as Lavasoft, so they'll simply prevent the programs from running.
Overall: I personally feel that the company fully deserves to go out of business, and soon. Forget how the anti-virus program works and concentrate on the company's policies, which are underhanded and counter-competitive like Microsoft's in it's worst days. Their firewall is a memory hog beyond belief, and simply doesn't work well. I have no experience with their SPAMware program, but I would not expect that it could approach the competition. I think that action is required to let them and others know that their behavior is far beyond acceptable.
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Reviewed by: soaraway
Duration of ownership: 6 Months
Strengths: works good - when it functions, daily updates may screw up your system without warning
Weaknesses: VERY POOR customer service option cost ($US) results one item telephone 40 poor time telephone $3/minute $$$$$$ 24hr echat free waste of time online forum free good but SLOW
Overall: As a long term (10 year) user of McAfee, I've had a love/hate experience with McAfee products. The products work well when they function. My email function has been broken eight times in the past two years by routine updates. This company does not care about customer (DIS)satifaction
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Reviewed by: mm100
Strengths: No problems installing. Not too slow starting up. Reliable virus scan company.
Overall: Had McAfee last year and was happy. Then they renewed me for $40. Too expensive. I found this from a PriceGrabber storefront for $10. You would think McAfee would come down on their price to keep a customer, but nope. Anyway, good virus scan product.
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Reviewed by: hploss
Strengths: Cheap, one year updates.
Weaknesses: Freezes my system. Reports worms that don't exist on Email sending of worksheet, but can verify or find these worms on scan.
Overall: Very Cumbersome. Hogs a lot of memory and computing capcity. A disappointment compared with Norton. Have Norton Works on my system, and have trouble fully disabling Norton Virus and still keep rest of Works.
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Reviewed by: randyfaerber
Strengths: Best anti-virus product available with the least problems and hassles. You can just forget about it once it's installed.
Weaknesses: Install requires 3 or 4 system re-boots. After than, you're OK.
Overall: Been using McAfee anti-virus products for years. Wouldn't consider anything else for virus detection and fixing. With the auto-updating, both the software and the virus list take care of themselves.
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Reviewed by: smittyz
Strengths: Easy installation, Found numerous Trojans on my system
Weaknesses: First scan took over 45 minutes. You only get one year of updates with purchase - this applies to the retail box version also.
Overall: As usual, Mcafee comes out with a great product. There is no difference between the OEM version and the retail box version - other than $32.00 price difference. This is my third year using VirusScan and I have yet to have any problems with Mcafee conflicting with other software on my system.
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