Others say...

"Disappointed Subscriber"
I've been a McAfee subcriber for about 5 years. I switched from Norton because I felt it was too complicated and had too much control over my computer. I found McAfee to be user friendly. I can't say that I'm pleased with the 2006 version. The platform is a complete change. In the previous versions, I kept log of the Internet in/out bound access and the system processes. The new version only has the SystemGuard event log which is useless to me. My computer freezes often now. Because of the limited event log, I can't determine where the problem is. The previous version would have shown the details. I'm considering not renewing my subcription another year. Customer service could use some improvement. Though the few times I've needed their assistance, the representatives have been helpful.

"dependable"
I tried other firewalls and had all types of problems with updates. McCafee seems to update in the backround and so far I have had no problem. I have used Virus scan for about 5-6 yrs and never had a virus or any problems with updating- found a good company and aim to stay with them.

"What's the fuss about?"
My Mcafee seems to work perfectly fine. Never any problems updating or connecting to or downloading from !! Bad Sites !!, They're very responsive the few times I've downloaded a trojan or such, and promptly delete said nefarious program. Yeah, the customer service sucks!!!!! One time on a default viruscan I came up with no fewer than 10 ( suppposedly infected files ) viruses. The problem was due to an incompetent DAT update which misread certain files and lined them up for deletion. That was maybe 10 months ago. Alas, I never did get a reply. maybe auto telephone and fake e-mail correspondents are par for the course in Mcafeeland. But for a premier service I think it's kinda wonky.

"Latest McAfee upgrade is a disaster"
At beginning of August I installed the latest upgrade of McAfee VirusScan...it is a complete disaster. Firstly, it also installed Site Advisor uninvited, which is just a nuisance and doesn't provide any information you could not work out with a bit of commonsense. Worse problem is that my email (Outlook) has slowed down and some outgoing emails seem to get in a logjam and fail to send. I've turned off some of the 'features' of the program to try and overcome this but it still causes problems. McAfee's chat room style help service is a joke...you can wait on there for hours and not get an answer, and emails to their help service take several days to get an answer, which is often useless. Phone calls to them have always been a waste of time and usually finish up with them saying the only thing they can think of is to reinstall. Well, duh, I already tried that! I'm switching to another brand.

"Regret installing Mcafee"
I uninstalled Norton and installed Mcafee Security Centre as I read many reviews in various PC magazines giving the product a good review. I wish I had stayed with Norton. Mcafee is extremely slow and freezes my MS Outlook everytime Outlook performs a send/receive which in my case is every 2 minutes. I send receive about 1000 emails a month, and frankly Mcafee is slowing my business down by freezing Outlook every 2 minutes. I am going to uninstall and go back to Norton.