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  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: ningyan

    Updated:08-26-08

    Duration of ownership:2 Months

    Strengths: Great price, reliable, good customer service

    Weaknesses: None

    Overall Evaluation: My experience with VirusScan Plus has been good so far. I had a little trouble installing it and had to contact online customer support, they solved it quickly. Now it's working like a charm.

  • Overall Rating
    3 stars 3 Star Review
    Reviewed by: comersha

    Updated:08-12-08

    Duration of ownership:37 Days

    Strengths: fast, pretty good performance

    Weaknesses: not complete protection

    Overall Evaluation: This software doesn't occupy too much resources, but it can still protect your system in pretty good ways. Compared with McAfee internet security, it is more fast but with comparable security functions. A good product to own.

  • Overall Rating
    2 stars 2 Star Review
    Reviewed by: zhengjie76

    Updated:08-12-08

    Duration of ownership:40 Days

    Strengths: resource efficiency

    Weaknesses: not so powerful

    Overall Evaluation: It is a very simple software with simple functions. If you only use this to protect your system it seems not enough; however, it has the most important functions to protect your system. With cheap price, it is not a bad choice.

  • Overall Rating
    1 stars 1 Star Review
    Reviewed by: rgkrishn

    Updated:08-08-08

    Duration of ownership:1 Months

    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

    Overall Evaluation: I bought this to mainly upgrade outdated antivirus and was taken aback by several issues.The install was fine but then I started to notice that my previous norton was not fully uninstalled and was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 statebut 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.

  • Overall Rating
    3 stars 3 Star Review
    Reviewed by: simenz

    Updated:07-03-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: None compared to other AVs I've used.

    Weaknesses: Slows my machine way down too much. McAfee always has been a resource hog.

    Overall Evaluation: It's not easy to clean it off your machine so I used a 3rd party uninstaller which seemed to help. I'm using a different AV now and I'm able to play games again and surf the web a lot faster.

  • Overall Rating
    4 stars 4 Star Review
    Reviewed by: 4everdealer

    Updated:05-10-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: easy to use, no problem

    Weaknesses: slowed down my computer

    Overall Evaluation: It is easy to use, I used for over a month with no problem. Only it slowed down my computer a little bit.but it is great for the price, and highly recommended

  • Overall Rating
    5 stars 5 Star Review
    Reviewed by: raviverma525

    Updated:03-22-08

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: More Security

    Weaknesses: No

    Overall Evaluation: McAfee is a very high security antivirus program, which can be used to scan your PC's at any time for viruses. I recommend any one to take this kind of anti-virus. Don't miss the deal

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McAfee VirusScanPlus 2008 (Full Product)
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