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 some comprehensive antivirus tools for all the major platforms.
McAfee has recently decided to simplify its range, retiring the Antivirus, Internet Security and LiveSafe as main channel products to focus on its do-everything security suite, McAfee Total Protection.
The package has a very lengthy feature list. That includes real-time malware protection, URL filtering, firewall, spam filter, parental controls, a vulnerability scanner, file shredder, disk clean-up tool and more.
These aren’t the underpowered junk you’ll get with some suites, either – the type which are thrown in just to look good. Many of McAfee’s extras have standout features of their own, such as the password manager’s support for biometric authentication and face recognition.
McAfee Total Protection covers all your devices, with packages available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. The mobile builds don’t have all the high-end functionality you’ll get in the desktop, but add plenty of new goodies of their own: device …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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