McAfee Total Protection 3 User 2010 [OLD VERSION]

by McAfee

Product Features

• McAfee Total Protection 2010 provides award-winning PC and online security for total peace of mind
• Detects, blocks, and removes viruses, spyware, and adware
• Identity protection helps you to shop, bank, and trade online safely
• Parental controls allow your children to go online safely
• Advanced home network protection with network monitoring

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 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: B002GUUO5I
• Item model number: MTP10EMB3RAA
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 9, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (250 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,030 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Computer Security > Security Suites

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

McAfee Total Protection suite offers you and your family the ultimate 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-spam, anti-phishing, two-way firewall in addition to parental controls, identity protection, and a powerful website safety advisor.

The ultimate PC and online security for you and your family.

McAfee Total Protection suite includes bonus download of McAfee Anti-Theft File Protection software that secures your valuable files. With continuous and automatic updates, McAfee helps ensure that you are running the most current security to combat the ever-evolving Internet threats.

Ultimate, award-winning PC and online security for total peace of mind.

Anti-virus and anti-spyware
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
A powerful website guide and shield, McAfee SiteAdvisor technology helps you to search safely and transact online by providing you with color-coded ratings to warn you about and prevent you from visiting risky websites that can compromise your identity and your PC.

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.

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

McAfee SiteAdvisor technology helps you to search safely and transact online by providing you with color-coded ratings to warn you about and prevent you from visiting risky websites that can compromise your identity and your PC.

Faster performance
Now with quicker startup, shutdown, and scan times, and 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.

Network monitoring
Alerts you when intruders connect to your home network.

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 intelligently defers tasks, updates, and alerts when you're in full-screen mode.

Product Description

McAfee Total Protection suite offers you and your family the ultimate 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-spam, anti-phishing, and firewall, in addition to parental controls and identity protection. Also included are a powerful website safety advisor and bonus McAfee Anti-Theft File Protection software.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

146 of 156 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You Now PAY for Customer Support, October 24, 2009

By 

Michael Perine "Powder Obsessed" (North Lake Tahoe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: McAfee Total Protection 3 User 2010 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

The McAfee product allowed my computer to become infected with Antivirus System Pro, a virus that almost disables its host. A scan of my hard drive using McAfee antivirus failed to find the spyware. I went to McAfee Customer Support online chat. I chatted with someone in India. At his request, I provided details about my system and described the problem. He could not help, but suggested that I contact paid Technical Support. He said that they could remotely take control of my computer and remove the spyware. The charge is $89.95, guaranteed.

I declined the offer. I used Windows XP to restore my computer to the state that it had been the day before the infection. It took me about 15 minutes and removed the spyware completely.

I purchased the McAfee internet firewall and virus protection to prevent infections like this one. When the McAfee program failed, Customer Support would have had me pay $89.95 to remove the virus. No wonder the price of McAfee has come down so dramatically this year. They have a new unseen and unexpected revenue source. They just need to reel you in with the new low price and then stick you with the additional price of Customer Support.

72 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to operate and quick to detect viruses, September 20, 2009

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Charles Wilkes "Heritage Conservator" (South East Asia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: McAfee Total Protection 3 User 2010 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

McAfee has offered an impressive suite of utilities and products. For the past four years I have been using Norton 360. Unfortunately, I still had a virus get past their software and ruin my hard drive. Norton wanted $100 to fix the problem.

So I switched to McAfee. I live in Korea, and today it caught the Conflicker virus attempting to jump onto my computer the instant I plugged in a thumb drive. Now that's quick!

McAfee also works silently in the background to ensure optimal performance. Unlike Norton that would take me hours to set up rules and schedules, McAfee efficiently runs on auto pilot. Norton sounds bells and whistles when it finds an virus, but McAfee effectively erases them without all the excitement and alarm(take for example the way Norton lists every cookie as a potential security threat- that's hardly the case).

Finally, McAfee's managment center is simple and easy to use. If you run a business, McAfee easily integrates all your computers and firewalls. This makes your business networking easy, safe, and effective. The savings of this feature alone is worth $1000s compared to having to have someone do it for you.

Did I mention that it costs about half of what Norton's 360 does. All in all, I believe that McAfee is superior product.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrendous. I'd ike to give it zero stars., December 17, 2009

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Bookworm & bibliophile (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: McAfee Total Protection 3 User 2010 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

This is a horrible, horrible product. First, McAffee permitted my computer to get THREE viruses that it failed to catch even after 3 scans. Not only did the viruses (a trojan connected to "Internet Seucuryt 2010' among them) nearly crash my hard drive, but I had to PAY "customer service" to tell me it could not help beause their scan found nothing amiss. It took a Bestt Buy scan to uncover the 3 viruses, and, at $199 to fix, which McAffee refused to pay, I had to buy a new computer. Suffice it to say, I will NOT be installing McAffee on it.