Customer Reviews

McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006 [Old Version]

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2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(50)

 

 

Guaranteed to S L O W your system to a crawl and cheat you too!


Problem #1: This software is guaranteed to slow your system down to a crawl. I currently have their Internet Security Suite running on two PCs and both have lost about 40% of their speed because of McAfee software.

Problem #2: The Spamware program that comes bundled with this suite is useless. It does not block anything. The 2005 version at least was successful most of the time. The 2006 version is useless. I cannot find any options to configure my Spamware. McAfee Spamware even ignores your "spam filters". It doesn't do anything!

Problem #3: Be aware that McAfee will NOT honor your rebate request. It is their philosophy to reject as many rebate requests as possible. You can read other users experiences on amazon.com on the miserable track record they have on honoring customer rebate requests. My rebate request was also rejected. I contacted my local TV consumer help line to investigate McAfee's unethical practices.

Your best bet is to go to Consumer Reports and get an unbiased opinion. You will find McAfee Internet Security is among the bottom of the list.

All these people that left negative reviews on McAfee Software can't be wrong. This software suite is rated 1 ½ stars out of 5 stars! McAfee's other products are rated even lower.

The traditional red packet of "McAfee Internet Security Suite" has been replaced by a shiny and nicely designed black one. This seems to be the most remarkable alterance that buyers will get after forking-out their hard-earned dough! Only very little has changed: in terms of the actual software. And, I am far from being amused.
For anyone who currently runs the 2005 (or even the 2004) edition of any Internet Security suite, (be it McAfee or Norton), better save your wad. You need not pay for this one. The notorious problems of both McAfee's Antivirus and Internet Security hogging down your computer's performance resources has not been fixed. And, the same is true for a lot of other incompatibility problems that were evident in the 2005 edition.
Meanwhile (on the positive side), an improved 'digital document-shredder', which is marginally better than what featured in the 2005 edition of this software has been added. Still, buyers need not applaud it, because it essentially does the same job that the 'Recycle Bin', which comes integrated with Microsoft Windows, does. Also included in this software is one annoying pop-up, which constantly shows-up to remind you to register the software. And to make matters worse, McAfee deliberately designed it in such a way that you cannot turn it off. So, it means that if you must stop it from disturbing you, you must either register the software or you uninstall it completely.
In conclusion, I must say that I was really disappointed by this 2006 edition of "McAfee Internet Security Suite". Although, I must add that in terms of good protection, it gets a pass mark. But the fact that it significantly drains computers' performance-enhancing resources in order to provide this security-cover, makes it a painful pyrrhic victory for users.

Terrible, Terrible Terrible. It has a few components phishing, firewall. virus, security, anti-spam. When I installed it, it went for updates (one at a time) and required a reboot for each. It then it complained I still wasn't secure get the anti-phishing. I downloaded it and it and guess what it required an update. About 10% the time it crashes on update.

The anti-phishing filter stopped my PC from connecting to the enternet. Smart move by McAfee no internet connection no phishing. Microsoft crash report sent me to their website which said hey you cann't connect due to the anti-phising filter delete a .dat file. I did and it still didn't connect.

Twenty reboots,no connectivity and 1 bad patch later I unistalled.

The sad thing about this review is that McAfee don't give a damn. Customer service amounts to "thats a software problem so contact the unhuman face of our technical department". Technical service is even worse, their solution to each of my problems is re-install the software. The Privacy Service is a joke, one of the worst applications ever developed, it's a disgrace. When you buy this product prepare yourself for endless subscription verifications which until verified leave your system vunerable to attack. Cos remember you have to connect to the internet to verify. My firewall was disabled until I verified the Firewall component of my software. Yes folks, my FIREWALL was DISABLED until I verified my subscription for the umpteenth time. An absolutely dispicable state of affairs. As someone else suggested this software is verging on being criminal. Remember also, McAfee don't give a damn, try contacting them to complain, to complain to someone who will get something done. PLEASE PLEASE AVOID THIS SOFTWARE. My package was purchased less than five months ago and I going to look for something else and then get rid of this McAfee garbage.

Just how bad is MacAfee's Internet Security Suite 2006 in the 8.0 version? It will slow your computer down so much you will think your computer was manufactured in the mid-nineties and you are using a dial-up, not a high speed connection to the Internet. It will make it painfully difficult to download e-books from one of the most trusted sites, Amazon.com. It tried this morning to remove a valuable tool for correcting errors in my computer's registry. It also makes my computer freeze. I have long wondered why I could not easily reach a technical expert like I could at Microsoft; I have learned from from one of the reviews of this product that McAfee has a dearth of technical experts. Of course, if you decide to make that call to McAfee, you will pay a lot. I also learned today that McAfee rejects many of the rebate applications. I'll find out soon enough if the company also does that to me.

Aargh, as part of my Dell laptop, I was given a free 3-yr subscription to McAfee. All I can say is I truly got what I paid for: NOTHING! McAfee failed to pick up some spyware that Ad-Aware and even Windows Defender got! But forget the protection; the performance is atrocious! This program really really REALLY drags your computer to almost a screeching halt. The program literally took 80% of my 1GB of memory. The worst part of all was the annoying update pop-ups I got. The program kept popping-up that viruscan or some other program was out of date. I click update and since Firefox is my default browser, BAM! I get the "open internet explorer and paste the following link" message. So I do open IE and I do paste the link, only to get some dead end page on McAfee's site. Upon uninstalling McAfee, I felt like throwing a huge party to celebrate.

I have switched over to Microsoft's new OneCare program. One might think that it may be bad because it has the Microsoft logo on it, but believe me it WORKS! and (unusually for a Microsoft program) doesn't hog much memory.

I have a grad degree and I have worked in an internet position for a
Fortune 20 company and this software is the single most frustrating,
most difficult piece of work I have ever dealt with. I finally got
some relief by uninstalling the whole works and Ive bought something
else (still evaluating).

A virus would be less frustrating.

1. Every other week since Ive owned it, part or all of its program
crashes. It can be triggered by anything...like you not being
active on your computer for 2 days.
2. These crashes require you to uninstall, shutdown, reinstall,
shutdown, search for updates (which take forever on cable even and
it doesnt give you an indicator bar of expected time for
completion), then, restart again. Then, when you scan for viruses,
of course, there are none. Its just another software snafu. These
seem to go on every other week.
3. If you ask for help, which I did once, I was sent a sermon 2.5
pages long (about 2 days later) that basically said ..."we are very
busy, so go to the FAQs on their site." What great customer
service. And, by the way, to get help, you have to go thru a myriad
of crap on their site.
4. Their updates seem to slow your system to a crawl.

Good ridance Mcafee.

Why would you use a product that causes your computer to perform at around 50 percent of its actual capabilities? I mean, are you REALLY that scared of a computer virus? Any protection offered by this program has to be weighed against the loss of performance. These programs will add a substantial amount of time to your boot up process, need to be updated constantly, and are generally just a pain in the rear to deal with. AVOID!

I just downloaded Internet Explorer 7 beta 3 onto windows xp professional. I had McAfee installed - what a mistake. They seem to use internet explorer technology for their interface and IE7 kept reporting errors with result I could not log in. Getting back onto the net was painful. My route was to try and get into the McAfee Security Center and disable the Privacy Service. This took some ten or more attempts with restarts but finally I was able to turn it off and get the net back. This was done by combination of clicking the rhs Security Centre window button - which shut the window, then clicking on the disable privacy service link in the security centre and typing in the password when the window came up and clicking the left window button. Do it enough times and it works.

I've just been Googling for how to uninstall this rubbish and thought I'd make a comment before effecting changes that could hang my machine.

Wish me luck, I'm about to start uninstalling. I mean think about it, McAfee wed themselves to specific bits of explorer and then when the version changes their program stops working. Total incompetence.

Nice idea, but simply does not work. When I try to update it with the latest version, keeps giving me registration error. I already registered the product, but even though I can login from the McAfee website, I can not upgrade it using the product itself. Tired of communicating with the tech support. They had me reinstall, run XP in safe mode, and install scripts, none worked. I think, this is a premature product which was not extensively tested to catch the Christmas season. Especially naive users should be aware, it has been a nightmare for me as a CS MS.