McAfee VirusScan Plus 2007 - 3 Users [OLD VERSION]

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HKI7J4
• Item model number: VSF07EMB3RUA
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 11, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,416 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

Marketing Information:

With the wide variety of viruses, hackers and blended threats lurking on the Internet today, you need more than a simple anti-virus program to keep your PC and files secure. McAfee VirusScan Plus AntiVirus, Firewall & AntiSpyware provides the essential protection you need to surf the Web and download files safely.

Product Information

Software Sub Type: Antivirus

Software Name: VirusScan Plus 2007 - Complete Product

Features & Benefits:

Offers 3 in 1 PC Protection from viruses, hackers and spyware so you can surf the Web safely

Prevents multi-pronged attacks by integrating anti-virus, firewall, and anti-spyware technologies

Simplifies security with the new and improved McAfee SecurityCenter

Shields your PC around the clock: always on, always updating, always protecting

Warns you about sites which send spam, install adware, or attempt online scams

Automatically blocks, cleans, and removes viruses so you can surf the Web safely and download files

Blocks spyware before it installs on your computer and removes existing spyware so you can surf the Web safely

Protects and conceals your computer from hackers so you can surf the Internet safely

Guards important files stored on your computer, and helps prevent your computer from crashing

Automatically monitors incoming and outgoing Internet activity, looking for suspicious applications and data

Improves your computer"s performance by removing clutter and freeing disk space

Provides advance warning to help you avoid sites which send spam, install adware, or attempt online scams

Scan your computer, check for updates and configure your security settings using the new McAfee SecurityCenter. This essential, easy-to-use program gives you one-click access to your computers security information.

24/7 virus and threat protection from McAfee AVERT Labs continuously monitors worldwide virus activities and provides imm

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Will NOT play well with other programs you may want to keep, October 2, 2006

By	DISenchanted (NM USA -Land of DISenchantment) - See all my reviews

Pro: Buy this only if you need all 3 programs and do not already have any of them.
Those being:
1. anti-virus
2. firewall
3. anti spyware

CONS: several (read on)

My antispyware from mcafee expired sept 2006.
I contacted mcafee and found out that you cannot buy it separately anymore.

You have to buy a stupid "suite" of mcafee softwares in order to get the
antispyware program.

So I bought this particular mcafee "suite" .

[Remember now, I bought this ONLY for the antispyware program.
(maybe down the road, I'll use the mcafee firewall. But at present
my ZA6 is still good for 6 months).

Just the Antispyware program].

What mcafee did NOT tell me is that this "Suite" will want to install
what it thinks I should install, not what I tell it I want/need installed.


Surprise #1 !

The antispyware does not have it's own install program.
(probably tied in as part of the anti-virus)

Surprise #2 !
Tried to install as a CUSTOM install and once it sees that
zone alarm 6(my firewall) is loaded, it gives me the option to "Skip" this item, leaving the current installed program in place.

I did so and then it tells me:
a. it cannot load the virusscan due to the zone alarm being found????

[What kind of "CUSTOMIZED install" is this?
CUSTOMIZED means that the installer dictates what gets installed.
Not according to this software pkg].

b. What does the a competitor's firewall have to do with mcafee's virusscanner not installing ??
They are 2 different function programs.

What kind junk is this????

c. Who cares whether ZA6 firewall is found? It should NOT prevent the viruscan and anti-spyware from loading/installing.

Surprise #3
Looks like mcafee won and I lost.
I want the stinking ANTISPYWARE and only the antispyware.
They don't want to give it to me as a single program.

Good thing the box says they have a 30 day moneyback guarantee.

REMEMBER :
If you need all 3 programs because you got a new pc, or your old subscription for a whole "suite" of programs has expired,
This package MIGHT work for you.

If you are looking for ONLY the anti-spyware application;
FORGET IT!

Consider the Mcafee Antispyware application part of
"SUITE installation only" package.
It doesn't install by itself as a standalone program anymore.

Go get webroot's spysweeper or sunbelt's counterspy.
Both/either are good
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UPDATE 10-06-2006

I installed this onto a 2nd pc, since it is not worth my efforts and postage costs to return it to mcafee for a refund.

As a suite that exists by itself, without any other conflicting applications, it does a decent job.

I was testing it a bit more and it does give a nice display of my home network - router, modem, other pc's, and such. Active or disconnected network links on the home network,IP addresses and network names, ect.

For this 2nd pc that I installed it on, when it failed to install onto my primary pc, it works fine.

In that respect, I would give it 4 stars.


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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes You Get More than You Pay For - Unfortunately, October 3, 2006

By	Ron Merritt (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I upgraded to this latest version of the McAfee product, wanting only the VirusScan, which has served me well over many years. Unfortunately, you must now accept a "suite" of solutions that McAfee deems in your best interest. If you need the functionality of the whole suite, you may be satisfied - or not. If you only want one component, you bought a truckload of trouble. It claims to be user-configurable. You will get a lot of practice at this because the product resets to McAfee's default configuration every few days. It requires considerable time and effort to drill down and disable each item in that configuration. But you have little choice. The program will nag you without mercy until you are "fully protected" - every time you boot up. One McAfee-dictated setting is a deep scan of your system every morning. You probably know that can pretty much tie up your processor for the rest of the day. McAfee Customer Service has been, well, politely quiet. In my view McAfee VirusScan has become a virus with an innovative Auto-nag feature.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This thing gets worse and worse with every ''upgrade'', April 22, 2007

By	Laszlo Uriel "Laszlo" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

No matter what the configuration screens say, you *CANNOT* get this software to stop using your network for anything it wants without your approval.

No matter what the configuration screens say, you *CANNOT* get this software to stop popping up those annoying-as-hell messages on the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Beyond being terribly annoying with their in-your-face display of how you don't have control of your own computer, these pop-up messages can mess up full-screen graphics software.

McAfee customer support is offensive. They treat you like you're an idiot, as if you don't know what you're talking about. Then after weeks of several people trying to explain the problem (this is in the McAfee message forums), once McAfee DOES understand the problem, they dismiss you like you're incompetent. Then in the next software update not only aren't these horrible, glaring, disgusting problems with the software not fixed, they're WORSE THAN EVER.

I gave this software/company/service a couple of years worth of the benefit of the doubt. But with every change to their software, especially the most recent one, it's worse than it was before.

I was tempted to give this product two stars in stead of one, but when the basic purpose of defensive software is to help the user defend their machine, and *NOT* to ignore the user, and open up MORE network ports and use even MORE of the user's network resources for stuff the user does NOT want, clearly the product is NOT doing what is wanted by the user. So no, this gets the lowest rating.

The other reviewers must not have any idea what resources this software is helping itself to when they give it an absolutely frightening five stars.

If I hired a security guard for my home, and every day when I came home I caught him going through my daughter's underwear drawer, I'd feel about the same way as I do about McAfee. Maybe he did keep OTHER people from breaking into our home, but the total creep-out cost is far, far, FAR too high!