Founded back in 1987, bought by Intel in 2011, re-floated as an independent business again this year – McAfee has had a complicated life. But it’s still one of the largest cybersecurity companies around, with an expanding enterprise business, and a full range of consumer antivirus tools for all the major platforms.
McAfee AntiVirus Plus has a strong set of features, almost qualifying as a full security suite: there’s antivirus, a firewall, URL blocking, file shredding and more.
There’s an unusual plus in McAfee’s ‘virus protection pledge’. If your computer gets a virus, a McAfee expert will remotely access your machine to remove it. If they can’t, you’ll get a full refund. We would rather our antivirus didn’t allow us to get infected in the first place, but it’s good to know the help will be there if you need it.
The price initially seems expensive at £50 ($62.50) a year. The reason is that your subscription covers installing McAfee software on as many PCs, Macs, iOS and Android devices as you need. No need to combine different licences for each platform, then have to buy another for your new laptop …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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