McAfee Internet Security 3User 2010 [Old Version]

by McAfee

Product Features

• McAfee Internet Security 2010 provides comprehensive, award-winning PC security to freely explore online
• Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, and adware
• Alerts you to websites that may try to steal your identity
• Identity protection helps you to shop, bank, and trade online safely
• Confidently use the Internet 24/7 knowing hackers can't get access to your PCs

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002GUUNQS
• Item model number: MIS10EMB3RAA
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 9, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (126 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,742 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #98 in Software > Computer Security > Internet Security

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

McAfee Internet Security software offers comprehensive PC and online security with accelerated performance, and helps keeps you and your family safe. It's now available with revolutionary Active Protection technology, enabling the fastest updates and highest levels of detection against malicious threats. It provides anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing and two-way firewall protection. Additionally, anti-spam and parental controls are included.

McAfee Internet Security software also features McAfee SiteAdvisor technology, a powerful website safety advisor that uses simple color codes to identify risky websites so you can safely surf the Web and transact online. With continuous and automatic updates, McAfee helps ensure that you are running the most current security to combat the ever-evolving Internet threats.

Comprehensive, award-wining PC security to freely explore online

McAfee SecurityCenter provides an easy-to-read security status screen and puts you in control with fully customizable options.

When using popular search engines, McAfee SiteAdvisor's safety ratings appear next to your search results. To see more information about the web site, roll your mouse over any SiteAdvisor safety rating.

Anti-virus and antispyware
Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, and adware.

Anti-phishing
Alerts you to websites that may try to steal your identity.

Identity protection
Helps you to shop, bank, and trade online safely.

Two-way firewall protection
Confidently use the Internet 24/7 knowing hackers can't get access to your PCs.

Website safety ratings
Warns you with color-coded ratings about unsafe websites.

New 2010 Product Features

Active Protection
Our revolutionary Active Protection technology provides the fastest protection against malicious threats to your PC. New and emerging threats are analyzed and blocked in milliseconds, so you don't have to wait for regular updates to arrive.

Quickscan
Checks for threats in the areas of your computer that are most often attacked.

Faster performance
Now with quicker startup, shutdown, and scan times, it runs silently in the background without slowing down your PC so you can play games, watch videos, and use applications uninterrupted.

Enterprise-class anti-spam
Upgraded with powerful industry grade spam protection that helps keep your inbox free from unwanted, fraudulent, offensive, and phishing emails.

Power optimization
Extends the battery lifetime of notebook PCs by deferring scheduled scans until the computer is plugged in and can be set up to shut down automatically after running a scan to help save energy.

Age-appropriate searching
Automatically sets the proper content filtering levels of popular search engines.

Parental controls support for Google Chrome
Lets your children choose Google's latest web browser and still be protected.

The McAfee Advantage

McAfee security products use award-winning technology, are easy to install, and come with unlimited email and instant message chat assistance. With continuous and automatic updates, McAfee helps ensure that you are running the most current security to combat the ever-evolving Internet threats for the duration of your subscription.

McAfee SecurityCenter
Provides an easy-to-read security status screen and puts you in control with fully customizable options McAfee SystemGuards Warns you when your computer shows specific behavior that may signal virus, spyware, or hacker activity.

Stealth Mode
Makes your computer invisible to hackers.

Shredder
Allows you to effectively remove any and all traces of confidential files from your computer.

Parental Controls
Allows your children to go online safely.

Data Backup
Automatically saves copies of your most valuable files on a CD/DVD, USB, external, or network drive.

Protection Without Interference
You can watch movies or play games uninterrupted as McAfee security service intelligently defers tasks, updates, and alerts when you're in full-screen mode.

Product Description

McAfee Internet Security software offers comprehensive PC and online security with accelerated performance. It’s now available with revolutionary Active Protection technology, enabling the fastest updates and highest levels of detection against malicious threats. It provides anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, identity and two-way firewall protection. Additionally, anti-spam, parental controls and a powerful website safety advisor are included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars McAfee: Most bang for your buck!, September 24, 2009

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Quoizimodo (Pacoima California) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: McAfee Internet Security 3User 2010 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

With Bit Defender and Kaperski, McAfee rates in the top 3 on many internet security reviews (#2). Here are my 10 cents worth after using all 3 of the above. Bit Defender has an excellent firewall but during a full scan, it tends to slow down the computer quite a bit. Of the 3, Kaperski has the fastest scan. Both Mc and Ski have very good firewall. But only Mc's firewall was certified by ICSA labs in 2009. Of the 3, I found Mc's Antivirus to be superior to the other 2 ( a solid A minus - B+ for the others). It was particularly well suited in detecting malicious items from foreign websites. The user interface in Mc's was more friendly than the other 2. Although ski's is only slightly just a notch behind. Mc's uses simple to understand traffic lights. Red: warning do not click into the website. Yellow: use caution. Green: OK! What could be more simple. In terms of price Mc's is stuck between the two.
Therefore here is the verdict: Bit defender - Excellent Firewall and above average AntiVirus. Slow scan and excellent price. Kaperski: very good firewall and Antivirus. Fastest Scan. It does everything very well, but does not excel in one particular area. Downside: a little pricey. Reviewer's choice: McAfee. A very good firewall and excellent Antivirus. Scan speed C+. Full of features and user friendly (a 7 year old could understand their color code). McAfee has set the standard for your complete computer protection. It's a no brainer.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is what it is - until it fails at that., October 11, 2009

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Ernie "Ernie" (Greenwich, CT United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: McAfee Internet Security 3User 2010 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I purchased this on a goldbox deal and installed it on two computers in the last week.

As the title says: it is what it is.

It's a "protection package" that you basically buy for the antivirus . . . the rest is basically social engineering.

Firewall & "Internet Protection" is subjective -- if you only surf and e-mail, it's helpful, but otherwise it blocks ports, which you could be using for one protocol or another. Adding a firewall to an average person's machine is terribly frustrating if a port needs to be opened. Worse, if they need support to talk them through doing so, if the software isn't VERY intuitive it can add to this experience. I've yet to encounter "home" software that is good at this.

Antivirus - it's one of the leading brands; not much to expect, not hard to meet the expectation.

Backup & Restore - honestly, there's nothing better than making your own backups. Lots of good software exists to automatically back up your software, but I wouldn't purchase this package for this particular reason.

Web Filter - again, there are better and there are worse. If you're REALLY concerned about the parental filtering, you need to get a dedicated service that is proactive about updates, not an afterthought on a package. Some browsers have features like this built-in, but I've yet to find one that didn't have false positives (as I don't visit sites with malware).

Updates . . . if you just "fix" security issues, it may enable MS updates. This led me on a 2-hour reinstall of drivers . . . but that's a Microsoft issue, not necessarily this software. You should keep your Windows updated, but you need to set aside time to do updates and MAKE SURE things work afterwards . . . it's just a peril of Windows.

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Update - I have to, unfortunately, send this to the "do not buy" list.

On my mother's work computer, my father was (reluctantly) trying to catch up on e-mails and clicked on a "forwarded" message URL which brought him to the most convincing scareware site I'd ever seen. It did an install of an "antivirus" program which totally and utterly rendered McAfee useless without so much as a peep from the real antivirus. The result was a set of self-downloading viruses and trojans that I was only able to exercise through safe-mode (disable EVERYTHING that starts up) then use of Panda online, Symantec online (and something else I can't remember). Each removed malware & viruses that the others managed to leave behind.

After I'd corrected those issues, McAfee was monopolizing the processor and memory starting on login and had to be uninstalled.

It's a shame that people have to go through this - I had a hard time and know (relatively speaking) what I'm doing. Panda and Norton (in my experience) may not have prevented you from clicking on something that scares you into installing it, but they would have prevented some of the additional infections and at least notified you of the problem. McAfee was easily circumvented.

Good luck folks.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I Would Be Irresponsible To Trust MIS2010, October 27, 2009

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techdad review (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: McAfee Internet Security 3User 2010 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

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I seriously cannot remember the last time I depended on McAfee products to keep my PC secure. I have used Norton Internet Security exclusively the last three years, but I needed more licenses than I already had. I ordered a 3-user license of McAfee Internet Security 2010 and now remember why I stopped using McAfee several years ago.

PROS:
- Low impact on system performance
- Well organized interface
- Lots of features
- Inexpensive compared to competitors

CONS:
- Poor threat database
- False positives
- Disabling e-mail scanning causes nagging prompts
- Historically does not catch insidious files as effectively as competition
- Only 30 days of free support

The install was quick, but not as quick as Norton Internet Security 2010 or Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. After the install, I was not required to reboot. It did not prompt me to perform a full system scan, as I feel it should. I manually ran the scan and it finished in under an hour. I did not expect to see anything unusual, but in fact, I did.

VIRUS/MALWARE DETECTION
Historically speaking, MIS has performed below average at detecting viruses and malware, compared to the competitors. Their database of threats is usually significantly smaller than those of Norton and Kaspersky. I wasn't exactly sure how I was going to test this feature without giving myself a virus, but after my first full system scan, McAfee apparently caught a virus! I was shocked. I had NIS2010 and KIS2010 on my system just before installing MIS2010 and so you can imagine my amazement. The file it caught as a virus was WinDVD 2010, windvd.exe. Uh, no. The reason my previous 2 security programs didn't catch it was because it is NOT a virus. Just to be sure, I checked the file with the online virus scanners of Kaspersky and ESET (Nod32) and they both cleared it as well.

PERFORMANCE
I was actually quite surprised that the impact to my system from MIS2010 was fairly minimal. It was about the same as Kaspersky, as far as I could tell, but still impacted my web browsing more than Norton.

USER INTERFACE
The interface has two versions, Basic and Advanced. The Basic interface is generally good and allows quick access to updates and scanning.

MISC
Like most security suites, McAfee also includes parental controls and spam filtering. I've read that they are pretty decent, but I do not use them and prefer to turn them off or not have them at all. I also don't have an e-mail client on my computer so I choose to turn off e-mail scanning but McAfee continued to nag me that my system was not secure because I'd turned it off. I should be able to choose to not use a feature without being warned by nagging messages. I reluctantly turned it back on so I could tell if the big red X on my system tray icon meant it was a real threat and not that I'd turned off e-mail scanning.

MIS2010 also includes a file shredder, network map, web site safety ratings, and identity protection.

SUPPORT
The quality of software support is often hit or miss, but with McAfee, you'll only have 30 days to hit, or miss.

SUMMARY
McAfee Internet Security 2010 is underwhelming in nearly all tasks that matter. I expect at the basic level, that my security suite will keep my PC secure, accurately. Then I hope for good performance, ease of use, and good bonus features, all supported by decent technical support. It does not stack up well against Norton or Kaspersky in any area. I would personally rather use Microsoft's free Security Essentials, which has been rated very good, before I trust MIS2010 on my system. I strongly discourage any user from using it, even if it's offered at no charge.